Textually, a text is a flow of information, or, more accurately, waves of information. These wave patterns extend from the whole text through rhetorical paragraphs to local waves, or messages — quanta of information that are realised by clauses in their textual guise, and (in spoken language) also by information units.
Thursday, 12 January 2017
Textual Semantic Units
Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 45-6):
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