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figure 4 Variation configuration graph according to co-textual and contextual dimensions
within the tenor metafunction of the Pauline corpus.
production score. there is grouping here as well. Both register profiles
4 and 5 realize informative—for the most part (with the exception of
Philippians)—discourse. all but 2 thessalonians in Paul’s earlier letters
realize interactive meaning. We should not be surprised that these reg-
ister profiles group in the way they do, given their diachronic and social
similarity. register profiles 4–5 occupy slots later on Paul’s timeline (com-
monly grouped as the later letters) and both likely emerge from prison
settings. Perhaps prison created an urgency to inform churches (register
profile 4) and disciples (register profile 5) to hold fast the gospel tradition
as it had been handed down, due to the uncertainty introduced into Paul’s
situation. in Paul’s earlier letters, there seems to be a greater need to solid-
ify his apostolic rapport within the communities to which he wrote. Sec-
ond thessalonians stands out as Paul had just written to that community
and now writes back for more strictly informational purposes.
the various features of this graph are intended to model these contex-
tually based clusters. the plot trajectory (the thick 3d grey set of lines)
represents the semantically-realized flow within the tenor component
of Pauline discourse. the small black two-dimensional lines inside of the
3d trajectory represent the interpersonal meanings realized within the
tenor metafunction. only one interpersonal meaning component var-
ies within register profiles 2–4 and 5, involved-information production
scores. otherwise, only one real shift occurs contextually between reg-
ister profiles 2–4 and register profile 5, all related to shift in addressee
type. thus the 3d trajectory spikes when we reach register profile 5
due to the massive shift within at least three domains of addressee type.
