Title: Contextual Constraints on Thematization in Written Discourse: An Empirical Study
Abstract: Context modelling and its influence on the linguistic structure of texts has been the object of much research, especially within functional theories of language [Halliday, 1978; Kress and Threadgold, 1988; Lemke, 1988; Fairclough, 1989]. In these theories the issue is how broadly the concept of context is defined. For earlier functional linguists, it referred basically to the linguistic context, whereas for some contemporary theorists who operate within a much broader social semiotics, context needs to be more discursively understood as a multi-levelled phenomenon, and 'text' as the product of varying contextual levels and components. In general, researchers have recognized at least three levels of context—cultural, situational and textual—each one consisting of different components and variables, with variations in the schemes of classifications, and in interpretations of the significance of the concepts.1
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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