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Starting from the system of textual relation (see Fig. 4), let us note that the addressee for this text is of the type [absent: category: imaginary].
Textual relation is defined as holding between adjacent segments of text which exists solely due to the juxtaposition imposed by the nature of the presentation medium, for example conjunction and pre-sequence.
Looking to Hasan's options for speaker in the textual relation system, the speaker attitude is [neutral]: the text has no obvious lexical selections that would be considered to function as overtly evaluative (Martin & White 2005), except in the paraphrase of the Iraqi president, already a much discredited figure.
Given the centrality of tenor to semantic variation, I will organise this discussion drawing on Hasan's more recent network for tenor, in which she proposes that tenor (or 'interactant relations' as she later called this parameter) involves three simultaneous, systems - textual relation, agentive relation, social relation (Hasan, 2014).
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Though he has has written on queer themes - his doctoral thesis in 1993 was titled "The bounds of sodomy: textual relations in early modern England" - Stewart makes few assumptions about James's sexual attitudes.
The primary systems of the textual relations form a simultaneous set.
So I was analysing cohesion in texts from 1968, at a time when discourse analysis in linguistics was still in its infancy; and while I loved grammar, analysis of textual relations beyond the sentence became my chief concern.
The systems of textual relations are naturally pivotal to register identities: since there is no text without a speaker, the speaker is always 'there' both as a material presence in the material situational setting and as a semantic presence inscribed in the text.
The second primary system of textual relations concerns the interactant as addressee; this is a simple individual system: the material presence (mp) of the addressee is central from the point of view of text production; not surprisingly, this system attracts many diacritics – which is to say its effect permeates both field and mode.
Enter Josh (the hottie from the bar) whom Liza has been having textual relations with ever since their meeting.
In the sketch above, BuzzFeed illustrates the lengths a bestie will go to in order to prevent a pal from having textual relations with that guy or gal from the past.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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