SFL Ch 3, 4, 1

Question 0

How genre signaled

Answer 0

Register configuration
Schematic structure
Realizational patterns

Question 1

Genre

Answer 1

The cultural purpose of texts.
“A staged, goal-oriented, purposeful activity in which speakers engage as members of our culture”
“How things get done, when language is used to accomplish them”

Question 2

Register configuration

Answer 2

Co-occurrence of particular contextual cluster

Question 3

How genre comes about

Answer 3

As values for field, mode, and tenor regularly co-occur and eventually become stabilized in the culture as typical situations.

Ex: horoscope
Field - predicting romantic, material, and career events”
Tenor - advice and warning
Mode - direct address from writer to (generic) reader

Question 4

Schematic structure & associated ideas

Answer 4

The staged, step-by-step organization of the genre
(From point A to B)
Bakhtin “recognize speech genres because they have predictable compositional structure” - ESP move & step?
“Constituent stages”
“Functional labeling”- formal & functional (p. 61)

Question 5

Stages

Answer 5

Sentences or group of sentences which fulfill a function relative to whole; only call stage if can assign functional label

Question 6

Generic structure potential vs actual generic structure

Answer 6

GSP: obligatory + optional
Actual

Genre defined in terms of obligatory elements

Question 7

Realizations of elements of schematic structure

Answer 7

The way a meaning is encoded or expressed in a semiotic system.

Question 8

How to determine stages

Answer 8

Look at lexico-grammar features

Ex. Recipe, different features in different stages

Question 9

Firth & meaning in context

Answer 9

Given a description of a context we can predict what language will be used…and vice versa

Question 10

Field

Answer 10

What the language is being used to talk about (topic)
(Technical/specialized - common sense/every day)
Ex. Bridge game , different situations , different texts
Experts (competitive players, beginners)

Question 11

Mode

Answer 11

The role language is playing in the interaction (written spoken)

• spatial / interpersonal distance & feedback possibility
• experiential distance & social process (ex playing cards vs writing fiction)

Question 12

Tenor

Answer 12

The role relationships between interactants
(Student/teacher, customer/sales, friend/ friend)
3 continua:
- power ( equal - unequal)
- contact (frequent - occasional)
- affective involvement (high - low)

Question 13

Register
&
Register variables

Answer 13

Context of situation in text

Field, mode, tenor