Functional Discourse Grammar
A Typologically-Based Theory of Language Structure
Hengeveld, Kees University of Amsterdam
Mackenzie, J. Lachlan Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Print publication date: 2008 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927810-7







doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199278107.003.0002

Kees Hengeveld
J. Lachlan Mackenzie
Abstract: The chapter presents the Interpersonal Level of FDG, which is modelled as a layered structure indicating the part-whole relations among units of discourse. The chapter shows how Discourse Acts group into Moves and are themselves built up from component elements, including the Communicated Content, which contains Subacts of Reference and Ascription.

Keywords: move, Discourse Act, illocution, participants, Communicated Content, Subact, reference, Ascription, dynamic implementation,

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