The Thought Occurs

Thursday, 17 September 2020

Halliday's Definition Of Mode

Halliday (2002 [1981]: 225):
Halliday has suggested (1975) that the “textual” properties of a text – the cohesive patterns and those of ‘functional sentence perspective’ – tend to be determined by the “mode”, the function ascribed to the text in the given context of situation, the purpose it is intended to achieve.