A New Architecture for Functional Grammar (Functional Grammar Series)

112 John Connolly

Table 2. Illustrative excerpt from a multi-level discourse description: contextual
and interpersonal levels

Contextual Description

Interpersonal Description

Preconditions(M 101 ) =

BELIEVE (P 1 NOT (KNOW (P 2 C(m 151 ))))

BELIEVE (P 1 NOT (KNOW (P 2 C(m 152 ))))

WANT (P 1 KNOW (P 2 C(m 151 )))

WANT (P 1 KNOW (P 2 C(m 152 )))

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

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

Postconditions(M 101 ) =

KNOW (P 2 C(m 151 ))

KNOW (P 2 C(m 152 ))

BELIEVE (P 1 KNOW (P 2 C(m 151 )))

BELIEVE( P 1 KNOW (P 2 C(m 152 )))

NOT (WANT (P 1 KNOW (P 2 C(m 151 ))))

NOT (WANT (P 1 KNOW (P 2 C(m 152 ))))

Outcome(M 101 ) = Postconditions(M 101 )