Sentence examples for mode and tenor from inspiring English sources

It consists of three variables, field, mode and tenor.

A further dimension of social context is genre, which configures variations in field, mode and tenor in regular patterns that are recognisable to members of a culture.

The PSTs had been introduced to the Register variables by showing them examples of transcripts of classroom talk from across the curriculum where changes in Field, Mode and Tenor were reflected in the discourse.

In this model of language, context is viewed as the overarching layer that encompasses the linguistic system, split into the three parameters of field, mode and tenor (Halliday and Hasan 1989; Halliday and Matthiessen 2013).

However, three works in particular – Leckie-Tarry (1995), Eggins (2004) and Halliday and Matthiessen (2013) – provide in-depth definitions for field, mode and tenor, each consisting of numerous quantifiable features.

These have been separated into their respective categories of field, mode and tenor, but it must be remembered that "the three contextual parameters are not just three completely separate ingredients of social situations" (Hasan, 1999, p.272).

So I was initially trained to analyse register variation with respect to field, mode, personal tenor and functional tenor; Ellis and Ure (Ellis & Ure 1969, Ure and Ellis 1977) were developing a similar four variable model at about the same time, using the terms field, mode, formality and role.

In a subsequent diagram in the same paper, context of culture is glossed as "potential clusters of values of field, tenor, mode" and context of situation as "instantial values of field, tenor and mode" (2002/2005b: 255) (Figure 17).

Whatever the motivation for unifying field and mode, similar patterns of permeability will also be found across field and tenor, and across tenor and mode, as shown by the above discussion of diamond and arrow diacritics with reference to Figures 6 and 7.

Naturally, the account has to be extended to cover not only field of activity within context but also field of experience ("subject matter"), tenor and mode; and to cover the full metafunctional spectrum of semantic resources.

The significant factor is the move in the last couple of decades to produce paradigmatic accounts of field, tenor and mode; and these accounts are now becoming more widely available (Bowcher [2007]; [2014]; Butt [2004] mimeo; Hasan [1999]; [2013]]; [2014]; [2014]; in press a).