ABSTRACT

This chapter presents the elements within the dimension of purposes and focuses on how self weaves together features within the elements of this dimension with features in elements within the other three dimensions in the deployment of communicative acts. It explains the elements within the dimension of purposes how self perceptions of interlocutors are central to purposes as they control how any particular communicative act is structured and resourced to best achieve the communicative intent. Within the dimension of purposes there are five elements: macro-text, micro-text, activity, key and otherness. The chapter focuses on the choices available to self and the selections that self makes and thus on self Multiplicity within his or her repertoire and purposes reflected in this Multiplicity. This is important in Language Education as self needs to be aware of his or her choices and take control of them whether they are small static contributions that self writes on a discussion board via digital technology.