Discourse Analysis and Vocabulary - Chart – by Mojarradi The Halliday – Hassan model

Look at some of the specific relationship between vocabulary choice, context and co-text
Lexical cohesion
1- Clause and sentence in written texts
2- Act , move and turn in speech Reiteration: Belongs to the
notion of lexical cohesion.
The exact repetition of words and the role played Reiteration means either
by certain basic semantic relations between words restating an item in a later Collocation:
Vocabulary&
in creating textuality. part of the discourse by direct Refers to the probability
organizing of text:
Textuality – that property of text which repetition. Lexical relations That lexical will co-occur.
distinguishes it from a sequence of unconnected are the stable semantic
A distinction is made
sentences. relationships that exist
between grammar
between words and the
words and lexical
descriptions given in
words.
Lexis in talk: dictionaries.
It happens as
Interesting observations can be made concerning E.g. Rose and flower are
function words
how speakers reiterate their own and take up one hyponymy; rose is a
versus content
another, s vocabulary from turn to turn and hyponymy of flower
words, or empty
words versus full develop and expand topics.
words.
Distinction:
Close system, which Francis (1986) focuses on what she calls “anaphoric nouns “ Modality
carry grammatical He gives extensive examples of nouns that frequently refer back Modality is often thought as closed class of model verbs.
meaning. to chunks of text. It includes of must, can, will, may etc.
Open systems, which Examples: That is a part of English grammar and of course it is included a
belong to the major Abstract large number of lexical words. Such as nouns, adjectives, verbs,
words. Such as noun, Assumption adverbs. They carry the same or similar meaning to the model
verb, adjective. Comparison verbs.
Close system: Two notable studies of modalities in discourse:
This, that, these, It shows a wide range of uses of traditional class of model verbs
The procedural vocabulary is basically words that enable us to and of a vocabulary items. They carry model meaning from the
those, pronouns,
do things with content-bearing words or schematic vocabulary. classic epistemic modality.
proposition,
demonstrative The classic epistemic modality concerned with degrees of
Open ended: certainty and possibility to the root modalities with degree of
Register, is closely tied to lexical selection. The relationship
Monkey certainty and possibility to the root modalities.
between vocabulary and register needs to be exploited when
Noise
studying textual signaling. Lexical choice will depend on the
context.