Functional discourse grammar: Difference between revisions

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*** 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 (linguistics)|Topic]]

* The second discourse act consists of:

** A declarative illocutionary force

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Similar analysis, decomposing the utterance into progressively smaller units, is possible at the other levels of the grammatical component.

== References ==