This paper examines the ideational dimension of Soyinka’s Idanre, in light two approaches. The first one is Hallidayan approach which takes substance from Halliday’s Theories on group and phrase clauses under classification process, participant circumstance. second method adopted by Indian linguist Syal, his book entitled Structure Stylein commonwealth Literature. issued to analyze function tex...

SAlthough different theoretical models are complementary, functional models in general, andSystemic Functional Linguistics in particular lend themselves to the analysis of text. This is so atthe level of register, in terms of Field, Tenor and Mode, as well as at the level of semantics interms of ideational, interpersonal and textual metafunction. This paper will consider two...

ABSTRACT Propelled by a commodities boom and expanding South–South investment, mega-projects have reshaped the politics of labour in many African settings. Reflecting on such dynamics, this article critically engages with questions employment, skills development, contestation re-configuring capital–labour encounters ‘Chinese’ ‘Brazilian’ workplace Mozambique. We analyse two mega-projects: Maput...

Epistemic modality serves to indicate how confident language users are about the truth of the ideational material they convey; it is often subdivided into two types of markers, hedges and boosters. Hedges are linguistic devices like perhaps, I guess, and to a certain extent that speakers employ to reduce the degree of liability or responsibility they might face in expressing the ideational mate...