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By Michael Hoey; Mike Scott; Geoff Thompson

It really is more and more transparent that, so as to comprehend language as a phenomenon, we needs to comprehend the phenomenon of textual content. Our fundamental adventure of language is available in the shape of texts, which include the full communicative occasions in which our language-using lives are lived. those occasions are formed by way of communicative wishes, and this shaping is mirrored in yes attribute styles within the texts. However, Read more...

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What is more interesting, however, is the association between the phrase and evaluation of some kind. Although the phrase has a range of uses — it can mean “the consequence is”, as in What follows is that people will either feel the faith…or they will turn away in disgust, and it can mean “what I am going to say next”, as in What follows is a brief description of some of the more popular exercise activities according to fitness needs — 49 of the 95 instances, just over half, express an evaluation of a text — part of a book, film or play — that has been mentioned in the previous sentence.

Secondly, the paper has argued that much the same procedure can be used to identify implied meanings and clause patterns. The implied meanings and clause patterns are associated, not with individual lexical items alone, but with phraseologies, that is, with a lexical word in conjunction with one or more grammatical ones (as in on the downside) or with a sequence of grammatical words (as in may not be a). These patterns have been mapped on to parts of a sample text to demonstrate that the meanings in the text are dependent on the typical behaviours of sequences of words.

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