Systemic Functional Linguistics

Metafunctions

Ideational

Language being exposed to reality

Interpersonal

Language accomplishing social relations among people

Textual

Language set in stages and composition

Context of Situation

Register

Field

The topic in discussion and the idealogical position of the self

Tenor

The social relationships of language being used among the participants and the role of the types of language

Mode

The channel through language is exposed: either written or spoken

Context of Culture

Genre

The selection of all the text-types and the stages of a text.