Elaborating Conjunction: Clarification
Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 616): Here the elaborated element is not
simply restated but reinstated, summarised, made more precise or in
some other way clarified for purposes of the discourse. There are
seven subtypes (corrective, distractive, dismissive, particularising,
resumptive, summative, verifactive), realised by different sets of
conjunctions; they are set out in Table 9-6, and illustrated below:
Calculations by Anderson show that ozone depletion at the 410- and
420-K isentropic surfaces between August 23 and September 22 can be
almost entirely explained by the amount of ClO present if one assumes
that the ClO-ClO mechanism is effective. At the 360-K surface, the
calculated ozone loss is somewhat less than the observed loss. At
least we can say that above about the 400-K level, there does seem to
be enough ClO to explain the observed ozone loss. [corrective]
Customer: What’s pepperoni? – Operator: Pepperoni? It’s a round, it’s
a pork product. – Customer: Is it? Oh okay. No I don’t want that.
Anyway, um – can I have one of them? I’ll pay the two dollar extra:
the – what do you call it? the seafood.[dismissive]
Interviewer: You grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, went to Vassar as an undergraduate,
and then came back to Iowa for your graduate work. – Smiley: Actually,
there was a year in there where after I finished Vassar I went to
Europe with my then husband and we hitchhiked around, wondering what
to do. [verifactive]
Elaborating Conjunction: Clarification
The foregoing is a post (which I cannot see the entirety of) on a website called:
Systemic Functional Linguistics
A Guide For The Theoretically Ready Willing & Able
And here is another guide to these Halliday terms regarding conjunctive cohesion or clarifying discourse markers (as I like to call them):
We thus come to the third way, according to Halliday, through which
cohesive linkages can be established between clauses: through the use
of conjunctive adjuncts, which consist of certain adverbial groups or
prepositional phrases. The use of conjunctions to link clauses, or
its lack, has a parallel in classical rhetoric with the concepts of
polysyndeton and asyndeton. In polysyndeton, relatively many
conjunctions are used to link clauses, but in asyndeton, conjunctions
are avoided. [...]
Like the tactic linkages between clauses within the sentence in our
study of clause complexing, the cohesive conjunctive linkages between
clauses (which may extend beyond the sentence) can also be seen in
terms of elaboration, extension, and enhancement. The conjunctive
adjuncts which give rise to elaboration and extension are given in the
first table below, whilst those which give rise to enhancement are
given in the next table (adapted from section 9.4 of the earlier
editions of Halliday's Introduction; see also the slightly different
tabulation in the third edition [...]
Thus, there are different types of clarifying adjuncts:
[There is a chart, part of which I have given below].
Clarification
corrective, “rather” Examples: or rather, at least, to be (more) precise
distractive, “by the way” Example: by the way, incidentally
dismissive, “in any case” Example: in any case, anyway, leaving that aside
particularizing, “in particular” Example: in particular, more especially
resumptive, “to resume” Example: as I was saying, to resume, to get back to the point
summative, “in short” Examples: briefly, to sum up, in conclusion
verifactive, “actually” Examples: actually, in fact, as a matter of fact
Taken from: Literary Stylistics:
Workshop Notes no. 18(c)
Course
University of Singapore
