Suppose that we grant that consistency is useful, given the various functions of ethical discourse.
As the discussion in this paper shows, the Voices of History Framework provides a systematic approach to understanding the interpersonal functions of historical discourse.
Drawing from contemporary social theories of gender our analysis explores the normative functions of gender discourse within adolescents' narratives, situating their descriptions of marijuana use within the context of the research interview and within the social contexts of drug use.
Mrs Edgar is attempting to bring together two functions of her discourse: encouraging Katrina to recount what she has done, as well as teaching her a lesson about SAE.
Power, or agency, is in part determined through 'production, accumulation, circulation and functioning of a discourse' (Foucoult 1980, p. 93), which means that the international humanitarian community can (re create meaning and put it into practice.
The provoked attitudinal values and their persuasive functions are then analysed in detail, and considered in terms of their cumulative functions in the flow of discourse in each text and as a collective set of editorials.
Paradigmatic functionalists like Tomlin, Van Valin and MacWhinney could in principle hold that the explanation of syntactic form, for example, will ultimately be in terms of discourse functions and semantics, but still accept that syntactic categories cannot be reduced to non-linguistic ones.
Of course these brief remarks about the discourse function of tense and aspect barely touch the tip of the iceberg.
The evocation of emotion associated with cultural symbols is central to the function of metaphor in political discourse.
Some studies, however, have shifted the understanding of the function of play from a discourse of development to the exploration of empowering ways that play grants children control over their own decision-making skills.
