Sentence examples for text operates from inspiring English sources

The Christian text operates here like one layer of the dying artist's dream.

As Hunston (2000: 183) argues, "every sentence in a text operates on each plane simultaneously, although some sentences draw attention to their status on the interactive plane more explicitly than others".

For example, Sinclair (1981) claimed that every sentence in a text operates on each plane simultaneously (in Sinclair's terms, examples (1) and (2) would both operate on both planes), while Hood (2004) claimed that sentences do not necessarily operate in both fields (in Hood's terms, example (1) is FD and example (2) is FR).

The text operates on a number of levels, containing references not just to the Devi's physical qualities and exploits but also an encoded guide to philosophy and esoteric practices of kundalini yoga and Srividya Shaktism.

It is, for instance, this: "Texting operates with quintessentially linguistic parameters: it is playful, concise and universal".

Myths and other literary oral traditions without central source texts operate similarly, which is how Disney films can be canonical bloodless renderings of vicious folk tales.

The examples I have quoted all come from texts operating in 'expounding' contexts (Figure 5).

Moving clockwise from 'expounding' contexts in Figure 5 above, we can consider texts operating in 'reporting' contexts.

In mono-nuclear texts operating in 'expounding' contexts, there seems to be a strong tendency for the global nucleus to be given thematic status as macro-Theme.

I have only been able to give illustrative analyses of texts operating in four out of the eight primary fields of activity set out in Figure 5.

Mastering different types of texts operating in different contexts can help learners to make full use of the linguistic resources in meaning making.