Text Type and Texture - Gail Forey
Texturing interpersonal meanings in academic argument: pulses and prosodies of value
Text Type and Texture - Gail Forey
Sue Hood
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Description
Returning to the topic of academic texts, Hood discusses the interpersonal prosody and patterning developed through the choice of Theme. Hood focuses on the discourse semantic patterning of interpersonal meaning in her combined analysis of ATTITUDE and GRADUATION evoking ATTITUDE (see Hood 2004; Martin and White 2005) within the thematic choices of research writing.