ENGL210I Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tag Question

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL210I
• Professor: Barry Mc Clinchey

Document Summary

This presupposes that there indeed was broken glass. Its differences that make a difference if you use different words it can make a big difference. There are powerful and powerless people in the court: lawyers are very powerful in the courtroom. Judges are the only people who have more power than lawyers. We have to consider context and discourse type that is used: discourse consists of utterance that have meaning, force and text within a social context. Appropriate in court of law but not in a lunch room. When we use language we use these metafunctions: ideational, verb processes, mental processes, relational processes, interpersonal, speech function, attitudinal lexis, textual.