The question of discourse representation 107ENTER MOVE M 102
PSp = P 2 , PAddr = P 1
M 102 : [CONVEY (PSp) (m 153 , m 154 ) (PAddr)] (M 102 )
ENTER ACT A 153
A 153 : [EXCLAIM (PSp) (m 153 ) (PAddr)] (A 153 )
ILLS(A 153 ) = ILLA(A 153 ) = expressive
Attitude(A 153 ) = surprise
A 153 = Acknowledgement(A 151 , A 152 )
LEAVE ACT A 153
ENTER ACT A 154
A 154 : [ASSERT (PSp) (m 154 ) (PAddr)] (A 154 )
CONTAIN(A 154 , BLEND(PAddr, AV 1 ))
ILLS(A 154 ) = ILLA(A 154 ) = representative
C(m 154 ) =
REFER(x 253 , P 2 , x 251 , x 254 )
ASCRIBE (f 203 ) AS PER p 173
ASCRIBE (f 204 , f 205 ) AS PER p 174
A 154 = Elaboration(A 153 )
LEAVE ACT A 154
LEAVE MOVE M 102
LEAVE EXCHANGE Ex 18LEAVE TRANSACTION Tr 5
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LEAVE DISCOURSE INTERACTION D 1The description is set out in a manner derived through combining the
practice of several different FG authors, but organized in terms of the Sin-
clair and Coulthard categories. Following the opening delimiter (‘ENTER
DISCOURSE INTERACTION D 1 ’), we have a specification of various
overall attributes of the discourse, such as the genre, the style, the ideology
and the overall topic. For example, the style is informal (witness the inclu-
sion of the interjection gosh), unremarkably polite (in that it is courteous
but in no way obsequious) and concise (being composed of short sen-
tences), while it is ideologically neutral in that it does not contain any overt
marker of, for instance, feminism, capitalism, and so on. Next comes the
sequence of transactions, of which our example happens to show the fifth,
i.e. Tr 5. The details of the latter are placed between its opening delimiter
(‘ENTER TRANSACTION Tr 5 ’) and its closing delimiter (‘LEAVE
TRANSACTION Tr 5 ’); we shall return to these particulars in a moment. At
the end of the sequence of transactions comes the final closing delimiter