Summary of Textual Meaning by Mohammad Firman Ardianto (202232015/EED2A)

Name : Mohammad Firman Ardianto

No      : 202232015 EED 2A

Task   : Summary of Textual Meaning (3) 

  About Textual Meanings

Explanation about it:

• Meaning about the message, for example, foregrounding/salience; types of cohesion (Eggins & Slade, 1997:49).

• Concerned with the organization of the text in which the experiential, logical, and interpersonal are bound together into a coherent. 

• Comprises textual interactivity, spontaneity, and communicative distance. 

• Clause as a message.

• Has to do with the ways in which a stretch of language is organized in relation to its context. 

• Is important in the creation of coherence in spoken and written texts.

Theme and Rheme

Clause as Message: Theme and Rheme

A clause has a character of message, giving it the status of communicative event. That communicative character comes from one part of the clause which is known as THEME;

Theme and rheme help us understand how information is conveyed in clauses.

My sister             goes to campus every morning

              Theme                                    Rheme

In the example, the writer wants to show us My sister as something she talked about.

Meanwhile, the rest of the clause, talks about theme, gives more information about the theme. This part is called Rheme.

Types of Theme

                                    -  Continuativies

Theme  -  Textual   -   Conjunctivie Adjunct

                                           -   Conjunction (structural theme) 

Explanation about it:

Continuativies;

• a small set of words that signal a new move is beginning

• usually found in the beginning of the clause.

• E.g. yes, no, well, oh, now, OK, right, of course.

Conjunctive Adjunct;

• Adverbial groups of prepositional phrases that relates the clause to the preceding text by providing logical link between.

Conjunctive adjunct is freer to move in a clause, while Conjunction is more restricted to being at the beginwhile

Conjunction;

• A word or group that either links (paratactic) or binds (hypotactic) the clause in which it occurs structurally to another clause.

Examples of both;

Ideational or Topical

• A clause at least has one theme, That is the topic of the clause, which is called as topical theme. 

• Based on ideational type, theme can be identified as marked and unmarked one.

Unmarked Topical Theme; 

• Usually identified as the SUBJECT of the clause. 

• Found in the form of NOMINAL GROUP (pronoun, proper, or common noun as head) and NOMINALIZATION.

Marked Theme;

• Found in the form of COMPLEMENT or CIRCUMSTANTIAL ADJUNCT. 

Textual

• Usually found in the first string of themes.  include continuatives and/or conjunctive adjunct, and conjunction. 

• Show the logical or temporal relationship between what has just been said and what is being said in the current clause.

MODE OF DISCOURSE

what part the language is playing, and what it is that the participants are expecting the language to do for them

in that situation:

✓ The symbolic organization of the text,

✓ The status that it has,

✓ And its function in the context, 

✓ including the channel 

(is it spoken or written or some combination of the two?)

✓ And also the rhetorical mode, what is being achieved by the text in terms of categories such as persuasive, expository, didactic, and the like.

Source;

Grammar of textual meaning. 

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