ABSTRACT
With the detailed discussion in Chapters 4 to 9, we have moved a fair way from the broad overview with which I started this book; and I am sure that at times it has been hard to keep in mind how everything tted in. As a way of beginning to draw the threads back together again, I will sketch a three-dimensional analysis of two texts that you have already come across in the exercises: the conversation in the doctor’s surgery (Exercise 4.3, page 89; Exercise 8.1, page 232; and Exercise 9.2, page 253); and the extract from a medical textbook (Exercise 9.1, page 252). The discussion which follows is based on an analysis of the following grammatical features in both texts: mood and modality; transitivity; Theme; cohesion; grammatical metaphor; and clause complexes. The exercises have asked you to do each of these types of analysis on one or other of the texts, but, before reading on, you may nd it useful to carry out the analyses that are ‘missing’ – e.g. mood and modality in the medical textbook extract.
