Analysis of Mood Modality By Lubna R

Analysis of Mood & Modality By Lubna. R Abdul jabbar

A Checklist of Features of Mood and Modality to Analyse n Subject and Finite – Therefore, non-finite clauses do not come into the purview here. – Since the finite is involved, so is tense. Polarity n Modal Adjuncts: n – mood adjuncts – comment adjuncts

A Checklist of Features of Mood and Modality to Analyse (2) Modal Auxiliaries n Clausal Mood n – declarative – interrogative – imperative – exclamative – (subjunctive) n The vocatives

Modal adjuncts To Halliday: n They 'express the speaker's judgement regarding the relevance of the message' (pp. 49 -50; 49 of his Introduction). n Further divided into n – mood and – comment adjuncts.

Modal adjuncts n Stylistically: – ask oneself whether, or to what extent, the modal adjuncts express or colour the opinions or perspectives (whether purely subjective or to an extent based on external evidence) of » the author » the narrator » character in a narrative » persona in a poem » etc.

Some problems In Halliday’s modal adjuncts (in notes – WWW) n What is important – not the fine details, but whether something is a modal adjunct – interpersonal metafunction & judgmental n Looking through list: n – gives one idea of range & possibilities

Grammatical & Stylistic Significance: The Deviation from the S{-f}-P-C-A Clause Pattern

Deviation from S{-f}-P-C-A n The consistent use of the S{-f}-P-C-A clause pattern in Halliday's grammar may in itself be of stylistic significance, . – clause is not in the declarative mood. – thematization of the C or A element in the declarative clause, » its relationship to given information, » thematic fronting of elements in clauses » whose moods are not declarative. shuffling of elements in the rheme,

Deviation from S{-f}-P-C-A (2) n Absence of the 'C' element, may be due to use of intransitive verb: – ‘Objectless’ action

Deviation from S{-f}-P-C-A (3) n Factors concerning the 'A' element may also be of stylistic relevance, such as – the presence or absence of the (usually optional) 'A' element, – its length, – the presence of more than one 'A' element, the type of 'A' element involved (i. e. whether it is circumstantial, conjunctive, or modal [and if it is a modal adjunct, whether it is a mood or comment adjunct]).

Adjuncts: Presence & Absence -Conjunctive & Modal The conjunctive adjuncts contribute to the cohesion of a given passage, n The modal adjuncts give an indication of the judgmental nature of what is being said, and n

Adjuncts: Presence & Absence -Circumstantial n The circumstantial adjuncts are intimately tied to the level of description in a given passage, – Their presence or absence may be related to the stylistic description of the passage as ornate', 'direct', 'opulent', 'dry', 'colourful', 'concrete' etc. – Where relevant, you may also consider the type of circumstantial adjunct being used.

Non-standard English n The S{-f}-P-C-A structure may also be disrupted because non-standard English or a non-native variety of English is used

Non-standard English n Qns: – whether the clausal patterning in the text is a faithful representation of the clausal patterns existing in the variety, – whether this deviation is only an imitation which aims at a stylistic approximation, – whether the writer – in disrupting the clausal pattern – thinks too much about his/her audience in making the variety of English 'palatable' to the reader, etc.

Extract from Tom Jones By Henry Fielding

Extract from Fielding I have told my reader, in the preceding chapter, that Mr Allworthy inherited a large fortune; that he had a good heart, and no family. Hence, doubtless, it will be concluded by many, that he lived like an honest man, owed no one a shilling, took nothing but what was his own, kept a good house, entertained his neighbours with a hearty welcome at his table, and was

Extract from Fielding (2) charitable to the poor, i. e. to those who had rather beg than work, by giving them the offals from it; that he dy'd immensely rich and built a hospital.

vocative Extract from Fielding (3) And true it is that he did many of these things; but, had he done nothing more, I should have left him to have recorded his own merit on some fair free-stone over the door of that hospital. Matters of a much more extraordinary kind are to be the subject of this history, or I should grossly misspend my time in writing so voluminous a work; and you, my sagacious friend,

Extract from Fielding (4) might with equal profit and pleasure, travel through some pages, which certain droll authors have been facetiously pleased to call The History of England.

Extract from Fielding (5) Mr Allworthy had been absent a full quarter of a year in London, on some very particular business, tho' I know not what it was; but judge of its importance, by its having detained him so long from home, whence he had not been absent a month at a time during the space of many years.

Extract from The Tin Drum n By Günther Grass – Picture on the right: Nobel Prize Lecture (1999)

Extract from Günter Grass I was worried about my drums. They didn't like my drums. My own drum couldn't stand up to their rage; there was nothing it could do but bow and keep quiet. But Markus had escaped from their rage. When they went to see him in his office, they did not knock, they broke the door open, although it was not locked.

Extract from Günter Grass (2) The toy merchant sat behind his desk. As usual he had on sleeve protectors over his dark-grey everyday jacket. Dandruff on his shoulders showed that his scalp was in bad shape. One of the S. A. men with puppets on his fingers poked him with Kasperl's wooden grandmother, but Markus was beyond being spoken to, beyond being hurt

Extract from Günter Grass (3) or humiliated. Before him on the desk stood an empty water glass; the sound of his crashing shop-window had made him thirsty no doubt.

Extract from Günter Grass (4) There was once a drummer, his name was Oskar. When they took away his toy merchant and ransacked the shop, he suspected that hard times were in the offing for gnomelike drummers like himself. And so, in leaving the store, he picked out of the ruins a whole drum and two that were not so badly injured, hung

Extract from Günter Grass (5) them round his neck, and so left Arsenal Passage for the Kohlenmarkt to look for his father, who was probably looking for him. Outside, it was a November morning.

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