Functional Grammar Two

16MB of RAM!

There’s a valid point here about tenor, I think. Just as these technological details instantly date the passage (at least to any reader who has even a glancing knowledge of the subject matter), how about the linguistic features?

Works by Shakespeare, Dickens, or any one of the Brontes are almost instantly identifiable as coming from a specific time (at least to any reader etc etc…). Additionally, a lot of the examples in textbooks tend towards the more formal/old fashioned end of the spectrum. It’s that conflation of old fashioned and formal that’s interesting here, as it suggests there’s a very definite temporal aspect to Tenor. Lots to chase down there.

Aside from that, a pleasingly practical unit this, so not much more to say.