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1. Texture refers to the features of a text that make it a unified whole and give it meaning. These include grammatical rules and the relationships between words. 2. For a collection of words to be considered a text, it must have inherent relationships or connections between the elements based on choices in the language. Random lists of words lack these relationships. 3. Two important things make a text a text: features of the language itself that provide structure and relationships, and an awareness of linguistic conventions that provide a framework for understanding relationships in the text.

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Texts and Texture PDF

1. Texture refers to the features of a text that make it a unified whole and give it meaning. These include grammatical rules and the relationships between words. 2. For a collection of words to be considered a text, it must have inherent relationships or connections between the elements based on choices in the language. Random lists of words lack these relationships. 3. Two important things make a text a text: features of the language itself that provide structure and relationships, and an awareness of linguistic conventions that provide a framework for understanding relationships in the text.

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Texts and TEXTURE

Texture The quality that makes a particular set of


Morano, Edrick V. words or sentences a text, rather than a
random collection of linguistic items -

About the topic In other words, TEXTURE is the feature


of text which made it unified as a whole -
Discourse analysts analyze ‘texts’ and The basis for unity and semantic
‘conversations’. But what is a ‘text’ and interdependence within the text.
what is a ‘conversation’? What A language speaker's ability to form a
distinguishes texts and conversations discourse or conversation is due to the
from random collections of sentences inherent texture in language and his
and utterances? These are the awareness of it.
questions we will take up in this
section. For now, we will mostly be M.A.K Halliday
considering written texts. Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday
13 April 1925 – 15 April 2018 ACTIVITY 2
ACTIVITY 1 Explain the following
"Meaning is the most important thing that

DO YOU CONSIDER THIS AS


makes a text a text; it has to make sense. " quotation
A TEXT? WHY OR WHY NOT

TEXT
"Meaning is the most important thing that
• Milk • Rocket makes a text a text; it has to make sense. "
• spaghetti • Light
• Tomatoes bulbs
A TEXT is everything that is meaningful in
a particular situation. And the basis for
meaning is choice.
So one way you can begin to make sense
of the list of words above is to consider
them as a series of choices.
2 Important In this conversation, the relationship
Thynk
between words are CLEARER...
To sum up the main thing that
makes a text a text is
Things That Make RELATIONSHIPS or CONNECTIONS
Unlimited
a Text a Text The second part os Halliday

ACTIVITY
formulation hasmaterials
Booklets are printed to dowith something
four or
more pages, containing details about a
1. Features inherent in the language that cannot
business, be found
event, product, promotion,in the
etc.
itself (example: grammatical rules) -

THREE
language itself, but rather exists in
They are also known as catalogs or
pamphlets, and are usually created to
which help us to understand the
relationship among words, sentences , the minds of
communicate the people
a message to a widewho are
variety of audiences.
qnd other elements of a text. perceiving the text.
Write your major take-aways for
The problem with the list of words this topic.
above is there is lacking in 2. AWARENESS of the conventions
information ... There are clues but of the language - which help us to
very basic:
understand the relationship
1. THEY APPEAR IN A LIST AND
2. THEY COME ONE AFTER anong words, sentences, and
ANOTHER. - you'll think that it has paragraphs...
something to do with one another

It would be easy to understand if it These conventions give us a kind


appeared in coversation like: of "FRAMEWORK" within which we
A: What do we need to get at the
can fit the language
shop?
B: Well, we need some MILK. And I
want to make a salad, so let's get
These conventions give us a kind
some TOMATOES and ROCKET. And
oh, the lightbulb in the living room is of "FRAMEWORK" within which we
burnt out. We'd better get some can fit the language
new ones.

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