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Interacting
g the interpersonal
metafunction
Introduction
The speaker uses specific language structures as
the means of social communication to involve
ne speecl
ch event: the expressions of his
comments. his attitudes. his evaluations. and also
the relationship he sets up between himself and
the listener, which are decided by different
communication roles he adopts, like informing,
questioning, persuading.(Halliday, 2000: 69)
he most important sociological use of
language is the interpersonal function, by
which people establish and maintain their
status in a society. In the framework of the
function grammar, this function is concerned
with interaction between the addresser and
addressee in the discourse situation and the
addressees attitude toward what he speaks or
writes about
Roles of addressers and
audience
The most fundamental purposes in any
exchange are giving (and taking) or
demanding (and being given) a commodity
of some kind
commodity: information
goods-and-services
four basic speech roles
giving information
demanding information
giving goods-and-services
demanding goods-and-services
The usual labels for these functions are
statement; question; offer; and command
three of these basic functions are closely
associated with particular grammatical
structures
statements
declarative clauses
questions
interrogative clauses
commands
imperative clauses
Mood
The mood carries
1) the interpersonal functions of the
clause
2) consists of Subject + Finite
The Subject is realised by a nominal group
that the speaker gives responsibility to for
the validity of the clause
The Finite is realised by the first of the
verbal group to express tense and
modality(The rest of the verbal group is
the Predicator, which forms part of the
Residue
A clause thus consists of mood+ residue
Identifying Subject and Finite
it is usually relatively easy to identify the
Subject, but in cases of doubt we can
establish exactly
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