Interpersonal And Textual Elements Outside Mood-Residue Structure

Martin, Matthiessen & Painter (2010: 66-7):

Some elements of clause structure fall outside the Mood + Residue (+ Moodtag) structure. These include (i) interpersonal elements which are not part of the proposition or proposal being negotiated and (ii) textual elements which have no interpersonal role at all:

(i) Interpersonal elements:

(ii) Textual elements:

Structural conjunction, such as and, but, or; when, while, if (cf. IFG2: 100; IFG3:160-1).

Semantically, the fact that all these fall outside the Mood-Residue structure means that these elements are not part of the proposition or proposal being negotiated. They relate to it by indicating its textual relevance as a message (by means of continuatives and conjunctions) and by indicating the addressee (by means of the Vocative) and by indicating speaker stance (by means of an Expletive), but they do not form part of what is being negotiated.

Blogger Comments:

[1] To be clear, this omits the most significant of the interpersonal elements outside the Mood-Residue structure: the comment Adjunct (e.g. of course, admittedly, frankly etc.).

[2] To be clear, this omits the most significant of the textual elements outside the Mood-Residue structure: the conjunctive Adjunct (e.g. for example, moreover, consequently etc.).

(Trivially, the continuative yes is accidentally mislabelled 'Vocative' in the clause analysis.)