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Tenor

Rethinking interactant relations

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Published online: 18 September 2020
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Abstract
This paper presents work-in-progress on the contextual variable tenor, here reconceptualised as ‘interactant relations’ in order to explore a radically different view of the relations of the interactants to the text in context. The functions of speaker/addressee are the starting point of an exploration of interactant relations because they represent the only features with the capacity to manage a text’s processes. This view implies that speaker/addressee have the capacity to internalise communal conventions, which places them at the centre of the language process. Implications of the results of the exploration for the classification of register are proposed. The paper’s methodology extends previous work on contextual networks (see especially . 2001a. Wherefore context?: The place of context in the system and process of language. In Shaozeng Ren, William Gutherie & I. W. Ronald Fong (eds.), Grammar and discourse: Proceedings of the international conference on discourse analysis, 1–21. Macau: University of Macau Publications Centre. Reprinted in Ruqaiya Hasan 2016. 95–126.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar, . 2009b. The place of context in a systemic functional model. In Michael A. K. Halliday & Jonathan J. Webster (eds.), Continuum companion to systemic functional linguistics, 166–189. London: Continuum. Reprinted in Ruqaiya Hasan 2016. 355–388.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar, . 2014. Towards a paradigmatic description of context: Systems, metafunctions, and semantics. Functional Linguistics 1(9). 1–54. . Reprinted in Ruqaiya Hasan 2016. 389–469.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar, . 2016. Context in the system and process of language, volume 4 in the collected works of Ruqaiya Hasan. Edited by Jonathan J. Webster. London: Equinox.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar).i
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Article outline
  • 1.Introducing the tenor of discourse
    • 1.1Tenor and ‘interactant relations’
  • 2.Context of culture and situation in relation to language
    • 2.1From situation type to social practice
    • 2.2Relevant context and context of situation
    • 2.3Material situational setting
  • 3.Interactant roles in text production
    • 3.1Investigating ‘textual roles’: Speaker and addressee
    • 3.2Material presence of speaker/addressee: The fusion of matter and meaning
    • 3.3Speaker/addressee’s semantic presence: On construed reality
    • 3.4Interactants as socially positioned persons
    • 3.5Are there other textual roles?
    • 3.6Different cultures, different contexts and texts
    • 3.7Some general characteristics of tenor roles (1)
  • 4.Addressee role: Correlation with register variation,
  • 5. [3.]Text in context and patterns of addressee’s material presence/absence
    • 5.1 [3.1]The movement of text in space and time
    • 5.2 [3.2]The inherently situated register variety
      • 5.2.1 [3.2.1]What does syndrome-1 tell us about the inherently situated register family?
      • 5.2.2 [3.2.2]Interactants’ social roles: Communal and personalised
      • 5.2.3 [3.2.3]Concept ‘cline’: Delicacy of description in register sub-classification
      • 5.2.4From syndrome-1 to more delicate features: Inherently situated registers
    • 5.3 [3.3]The inherently displaced register
      • 5.3.1 [3.3.1]Material absence and the concept of semantic presence
      • 5.3.2 [3.3.1]Modes and technologies with [addressee: absent: individual]
      • 5.3.3[…] Field with [addressee: absent: individual]
      • 5.3.4[3.3.4] Field and mode with tenor [addressee: absent: category]
      • 5.3.5[3.3.5] Rethinking context: The significance of inherently displaced register
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Editors’ notes
  • References
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