Doing Critical Literacy by Janks Hilary Dixon Kerryn Ferreira Ana Granville Stella Newfield Denise

Author:Janks, Hilary, Dixon, Kerryn, Ferreira, Ana, Granville, Stella, Newfield, Denise
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781136310751
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Textual function (organization)

This function has to do with how the words are arranged to form a clause. What comes first? What comes last? What is emphasized? How? It is also concerned with how clauses are linked to other clauses to construct a text.

How the text sticks together or is cohesive is the subject of p. 82. You are asked to look for repetitions, synonyms, pronouns that tie the text together. How the article is used (p. 75) is also an aspect of cohesion. Three kinds of cohesion are shown in Table 4.2.

The starting point of the clause, what

TABLE 4.2 Cohesion Cohesion Explanation Examples

Reference Refers back over short stretches of text Pronouns. The definite article refers to what is known

Lexical cohesion Connects words by repetition, synonyms, antonyms over long stretches of text Husband, wife, couple, family, children, home, marriage, love, divorce—are all connected

Conjunction Joins clauses and sets up logical relations Because—reason. If—condition When—time

Halliday calls theme, can be examined in a text to see what is foregrounded. The theme is the launch pad for the idea in the clause and it gives us a sense of the concerns of the clause and, if these are patterned, of the text. Halliday also looks at how focus is brought to information. In spoken texts we do this with our voice and in written texts BY CHANGING THE FONT in some way. This makes some words jump out. Theme and information focus are the subject of page 83.

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