Clause as Exchange

Clause as Exchange
It is about the relationship speakers
forge with listeners through the form
of language

The Nature of Dialogue

The most fundamental types of speech role, which
lie behind all the more specic types that we may
eventually be able to recognize, are just two:
givingthe speaker is giving something to the
listener (a piece of information), inviting to receive
example: Boof keeps scaring me
demandinghe is demanding something from
him, inviting to give
example: When [has Boof bit you]?

Good & services

information

d & services the exchange commodity is strictly non-verbal. What is b

manded is an object or an action, and language is brought in to help the p
ng.
Information what is being demanded is information, language
is the end as well as the means, and the only answer expected
is a verbal one.

STRUCTURE OF THE
MOOD
It is called the Mood element, and it consists of
two parts:
Subject, which is a nominal group
Finite operator, which is part of a verbal group.
Thus in he might he is Subject and might is
Finite.

Subject and Finite are closely linked together,

and combine to form one constituent which we
call the Mood.
The Mood is the element that realizes the
selection of mood in the clause.

1) The presence of the Mood element,

consisting of Subject plus Finite, realizes the
feature indicative.
2) Within the indicative, what is signicant is
the order of Subject and Finite:
(a) the order Subject before Finite realizes
declarative
(b) the order Finite before Subject realizes
yes/no interrogative;
(c) in a WH- interrogative the order is:
(i) Subject before Finite if the WHelement is the Subject;
(ii) Finite before Subject otherwise.

Structure of the Residu

The residue consists of functional
elements of three kinds; predicator,
complement and adjunct.
Sister
Susie
Subject
Mood

Sewing

shirts

For soldier

nite

predicator compleme adjunct

nt
Residue