appropriate genre based on a number of factors, including the purpose of communication, the context, and the people involved" (Miller, 2011), the “rhetorical flexibility necessary for adapting…to everevolving contexts” (Johns 2008, 238). Having in mind that genre is a type of a communicative event for expressing a purpose and that varies in structure, language, aim and from culture to culture, we understand genre awareness as the knowledge of the existence of different types of genre, and how and when
Indeed, if we apply the above cited definition to the analysed text, we can describe the total event as the whole story narrated in the book itself. In addition, the purposive activity of the writer, Charles Dickens, is to tell Pip’ story. Secondly, tenor must be analysed as well. According to Halliday “The tenor of discourse refers to who is taking part, to the nature of the participants, their statues and roles: what kinds of role relationship obtain among the participants, including permanent
case is two English versions of drama Teahouse. Tea house is a three-act play written by Lao She. He is good at depicting the life of common people, which easily finds echo among them, and also at vivid portrayal of characters. His language, often the oral Chinese spoken in Beijing area, is humorous and ironic. Teahouse reflects fifty years from the end of the 19th century to mid-20th century in China, and it reflects the reality of both social and political. In the past, a teahouse meant more for
Systemic functional linguistic (SFL) is a theory of language that it focuses around the notion of language function; a central notion is "stratification", such us that language is analysed in terms of semantics, context, lexico-grammar and phonology-Graphology. The context focuses on three kinds. They are field, tenor and mode. Field deeps on what the text is taking about, for example "medicine, education or science". Tenor is the relationship between participants. It is the power of relation. It
For example, Richard Vatz argues in, “The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation,” that for something to be considered rhetorical, words must be involved. This is not the case, however, considering the powerful effect that pictures, images, and sounds, all have in the persuasion of an audience. Since images and sounds have the power to appeal to an audience’s pathos, logos, and ethos, they are in actuality, rhetorical objects. Vatz also argues, “We view the communication of an event as a
INTRODUCTION Our thoughts carry meaning that we make concrete by means of a language, so when we speak, we reflect what is in our minds, in our hearts and in our souls. These thoughts integrate our ideology which is affected by influences coming from the culture we live in. That is why the surrounding ideas, customs, skills, and tools, have impact on any language. As our culture provides us with guidelines to behave appropriately within our community, our speech must include those qualities that
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Prayut Chan-o-cha’s Speeches of Elections and Reforms Rachayanandhana Phraekhao 5406610039 1 Introduction Politics is a struggle of power in order to put certain political, economic and social ideas into practice. In this process, language plays a crucial role. Every political action is prepared, accompanied, influenced and played by language. This paper analyses the political discourse of General Prayut Chan-o-Cha, the Prime Minister of Thailand who gave the