Context of situation Institution- situation type Text Context of culture Sub-potential-instance type Repertoire of registers -text type Potential System(of language 1.4.2.2 Situation type A. Field: what's going on in the situation: (i) the nature of the social and semiotic activity; (ii) the domain of experience this activity relates to(the"subject matter""or B. Tenor: who is taking part in the situation: (i the roles played by those taking part in the socio-semiotic activity -(1)institutional roles, (2) status roles(power, either equal or unequal),(3) contact roles (familiarity, ranging from strangers to intimates, and(4)socio-semiotic roles(affect, either neutral or charged, positively or negatively and (i) the values that the interactants imbue the domain with(eithe neutral or loaded, positively or negatively) C Mode: what role is being played by language and other semiotic systems the situation: (i) the division of labor between semiotic activities and social ones (ranging from semiotic activities as constitutive of the situation to semiotic activities as facilitating);(ii) the division of labor between linguistic activities and other semiotic activ ities; (iii) rhetorical mode: the orientation of the text towards field(e. g informative, didactic, explanatory, explicatory)or tenor(e.g. persuasive, exhortatory, hortatory, polemic ); (iv)turn: dialogic or monologic;(v) medium: written or spoken (vi)channel: phonic or graphic 1. 4.2.3 Language in relation to context Field values resonate with ideational meaning; Tenor values resonate with interpersonal meaning Mode values resonate with textual meaning 1.4.2.4 Field socio-semiotic process(activities of doing""meaning') A. "doing". the situation is constituted in some form of social behavior. involving one or more persons. Language or other semiotic systems such as gesture, gaze and facial expressions may be engaged to facilitate the performance of the activity, as when language is used to coord inate a team B. meaning " the situation is constituted in some process of meaning. There are seven primary types5 Context of situation Instance Institution – situation type Text Context of culture Sub-potential – instance type Repertoire of registers – text type Potential System (of language) 1.4.2.2 Situation type A. Field: what’s going on in the situation: (i) the nature of the social and semiotic activity; (ii) the domain of experience this activity relates to (the “subject matter” or “topic”) B. Tenor: who is taking part in the situation: (i) the roles played by those taking part in the socio-semiotic activity – (1) institutional roles, (2) status roles (power, either equal or unequal), (3) contact roles (familiarity, ranging from strangers to intimates), and (4) socio-semiotic roles (affect, either neutral or charged, positively or negatively); and (ii) the values that the interactants imbue the domain with (either neutral or loaded, positively or negatively) C. Mode: what role is being played by language and other semiotic systems in the situation: (i) the division of labor between semiotic activities and social ones (ranging from semiotic activities as constitutive of the situation to semiotic activities as facilitating); (ii) the division of labor between linguistic activities and other semiotic activities; (iii) rhetorical mode: the orientation of the text towards field (e.g. informative, didactic, explanatory, explicatory) or tenor (e.g. persuasive, exhortatory, hortatory, polemic); (iv) turn: dialogic or monologic; (v) medium: written or spoken; (vi) channel: phonic or graphic. 1.4.2.3 Language in relation to context Field values resonate with ideational meaning; Tenor values resonate with interpersonal meaning; Mode values resonate with textual meaning 1.4.2.4 Field- socio-semiotic process (activities of “doing” and “meaning”) A. “doing”: the situation is constituted in some form of social behavior, involving one or more persons. Language or other semiotic systems such as gesture, gaze and facial expressions may be engaged to facilitate the performance of the activity, as when language is used to coordinate a team B. “meaning”: the situation is constituted in some process of meaning. There are seven primary types: