[sys-func] Re: Halliday On Discourse Analysis

  • From: Rodrigo Esteves de Lima Lopes <rll307@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: sys-func@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:38:27 -0300

Thanks for sharing. I went through mine and noticed I had highlighted the
same passage.

All the best,
Rodrigo




On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 at 01:18, Dr ChRIS CLÉiRIGh <c.cleirigh@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Halliday (1985/1994: xvi-xvii):

The current preoccupation is with discourse analysis, or 'text
linguistics'; and it has sometimes been assumed that this can be carried on
without grammar — or even that it is somehow an alternative to grammar.
But this is an illusion.  A discourse analysis that is not based on grammar
is not an analysis at all, but simply a running commentary on a text … the
exercise remains a private one in which one explanation is as good or as
bad as another.

A text is a semantic unit, not a grammatical one.  But meanings are
realised through wordings; and without a theory of wordings — that is, a
grammar — there is no way of making explicit one's interpretation of the
meaning of a text.


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dr chris cléirigh


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