Table 2.

1 The description of text structure, Van Dijk

(1998)
Units of
Structures Investigation
Analysis

(What is produced or said?) Text

Macrostructure
Elements: Topics and Themes
Schematic
(How is opinion arranged in Text
Superstructure
sequence?)
Elements: schema
Semantics
(What does opinion which is delivered
mean?)
Paragraph
Elements: surface or background, detail,
illustration, intention,
assumption, and reasoning
Syntactic
(How is opinion produced?) Sentence,
Microstructure Elements: coherence, nominalization, proposition
abstract, sentence, and pronoun
Lexicon
Word
(What are words choice used?)
Rhetoric
(In what way opinion is delivered?)
Sentence,
Elements: style, interaction,
proposition
expression, metaphor, and visual
image