ABSTRACT
In Chapter 3 we looked at some of the details of text semantics. We saw in microcosm the intimate interplay of thematic (presentational), attitudinal (orientational), and structural-cohesive (organizational) dimensions of meaning-making. All these aspects of meaning depend on the intertextual patterns through which we interpret our texts. Those patterns in turn characterize the discourse communities we belong to and their heteroglossic relations to other discourses and communities.
