2. ENGAGEMENT
Engagement. Writers relate to their readers
with respect to the positions advanced in the
text, which I call engagement (Hyland, 2001).
This is an alignment dimension where writers
acknowledge and connect to others,
recognizing the presence of their readers,
pulling them along with their argument,
focusing their attention, acknowledging their
uncertainties, including them as discourse
participants, and guiding them to
interpretations.
4. Heterogloss
Heterogloss is the idea that different forms of
language can exist within a single cohesive text.
This is the case for some types of texts
communication, but not others.
For example, it would usually be improper for a
piece of technical writing, a business plan, a
public notice to include more than one dialect or
type of language. The common types of text that
can include more than one linguistic form or
dialect are largely works of fiction, including
novels, plays, and short stories.
5. PROJECTION
One thing we are able to do in discourse is
quote or report what people say or think.
Halliday (1994)calls this type of linguistic
resource ‘projection’. Projection is the relation
between he says in the example above , and
what he said : He and three of our friends
have been promoted. ‘ We’re moving to a
special unit. Now my darling. We are real
policemen now. ‘ We can illustrate projection
with a speech bubble’. Projection may quote
the exact words that someone said, in which
case ‘speech marks’ are ussually used in
writing.
6. MODALITY
• Modality as a resource which set up a semantic
space between yes and no, a cline running
between positive and negative poles.
• For example
Do it positive
you must do it
You sould do it
You chould do it
don’t do it negative
7. CONCESSION
is an example of content concession which relates
phenomena involving the physical world domain. The
raining and walking events are physically realized in the
real world. On the other hand (lb) shows epistemic
relationship that relates the speaker's premise and a
conflicting conclusion.
Although the two events [his being not at home] and
[his car parking] are real world events, there is a
difference between (la) and (lb) in the relations of the
two subevents. In (1c) the concessive meaning should
be assessed at the level of speech acts. On th Bother
hand in (1d) concession can be imagined at the textual
level.
