Sunday, 8 March 2020

The Relation Between Generic Stages And Discourse Phases

Martin & Rose (2007: 144-5):
It is possible by these means to show all the logical connections in a text, but to simplify the presentation we can first show in one diagram how each generic stage and discourse phase is connected, and then show the connections within each stage in a separate diagram. This allows us to see a text’s overall logical structure, before examining more local connections. To begin with we’ll show connections between stages and phases in Helena’s story, in Figure 4.9. First let’s glance again at this structure of stages and phases:

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To be clear, according to the authors' model of stratification (p309), genre is theorised as two levels of symbolic abstraction above discourse semantics, and contrasted with language:

Nevertheless, here Martin & Rose present generic stages (not language) and discourse phases (language) in a constituency relation at the same level of symbolic abstraction, and, contradicting the distinction in Figure 9.2, both as language (text).

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