Written Form: Lexical density (p.164) - Due to the importance of a win in Saturday’s football game as a pre-requisite for a final appearance, the necessity of my training attendance diminishes my child minding capacity tonight
- However, the lack of an attendance requirement on Wednesday allows my availability consequent upon your approval.
What has changed? - The way the information is distributed, the number of content words per clause has risen dramatically.
- The lexical density has risen.
- Grammatical changes push the lexical density up.
- The key difference in grammar is the amount of grammatical metaphor.
Nominalisation - Much information that was spread out in the spoken language has been condensed by way of nominatisation.
- e.g.
- because I must go to football training (clause)
- The necessity of my training requirement (noun phrase)
Example (Halliday 1989) - Spoken:
- This is yer phone bill and you hafta go to the post office to pay it – uh by next Monday, that’s what this bax tells ya – or they’ll cut the phone off.
- Written:
- All phone bills must be paid by the date shown or service will be discontinued.
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