106 John Connolly
The description of the discourse proper begins at the interpersonal level.
Internally the interpersonal level has a hierarchical structure, which can be
represented with the help of indentation, somewhat after Dik (1997b: 423).
The units in the hierarchy will be taken to be those of Sinclair and
Coulthard, given that many of these have been adopted somewhere in the
FG literature, and some of them are already recognized in FDG.
By way of illustration, an interpersonal level description of the same
dialogue is the following:
(14) ENTER DISCOURSE INTERACTION D 1
Genre = conversation
Style = informal, unremarkably polite, concise
Ideology = neutral
Discourse topic = miscellaneous idle chatter
Discourse tense = present
...
ENTER TRANSACTION Tr 5
Topic of transaction = gossip about mutual acquaintances
ILL(Tr 5 ) = representative
...
ENTER EXCHANGE Ex 18
Topic of exchange = Jay and Kay’s romantic association
ENTER MOVE M 101
PSp = P 1 , PAddr = P 2
M 101 : [CONVEY (PSp) (m 151 , m 152 ) (PAddr)] (M 101 )
ENTER ACT A 151
A 151 : [ASSERT (PSp) (m 151 ) (PAddr)] (A 151 )
ILLS(A 151 ) = ILLA(A 151 ) = representative
C(m 151 ) =
REFER(x 251 , x 252 )
ASCRIBE(f 201 ) AS PER p 171
LEAVE ACT A 151
ENTER ACT A 152
A 152 : [ASSERT (PSp) (m 152 ) (PAddr)] (A 152 )
ILLS(A 152 ) = ILLA(A 152 ) = representative
C(m 152 ) =
REFER(x 251 , x 252 )
ASCRIBE(f 202 ) AS PER p 172
A 152 = Elaboration(A 151 )
LEAVE ACT A 152
LEAVE MOVE M 101