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According to Functional Discourse Grammar, four components are involved in building up an utterance: the conceptual component, which is where the communicative intention that drives the utterance construction arises; the grammatical component, where the utterance is formulated and encoded according to the communicative intention; the contextual component, which contains all elements that can be referred to in the history of the discourse or in the environment; and the output component, which finally realizes the utterance as sound, writing or signing.

The grammatical component consists of four levels: the interpersonal level, which accounts for the [[pragmatics]]; the representational level, which accounts for the [[semantics]]; the morphosyntactic level, which accounts for the [[syntax]] and [[morphology]]; and the phonological level, which accounts for the [[phonology]] of the utterance.

== Example ==

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At the interpersonal level, this utterance is one discourse move, which consists of two [[speech act|discourse acts]], one corresponding to "I can't find the red pan" and another corresponding to "It is not in its usual place".

* The first discourse act conistsconsists of:

** A [[declarative]] [[illocutionary force]]

** A speaker, denoted by the word "I"

** An addressee

** A communicated content, which consists of:

*** A referential subact corresponding to "I"

*** An ascriptive subact corresponding to "find", which has the function [[Focus (linguistics)|Focus]]

*** A referential subact corresponding to "the red pan", which contains two ascriptive subacts corresponding to "red" and "pan", and which has the function Topic

* The second discourse act consists of:

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** An addressee

** A communicated content, which consists of:

*** A referential subact corresponding to "it", which has the function [[Topic. (linguistics)|Topic]]

*** An ascriptive subact corresponding to "in its usual place", which has the function Focus

**** Within this subact there is a referential subact corresponding to "its usual place", which consists of: