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General architecture of Functional Discourse Grammar
The components
• The grammatical component of FDG interacts with three additional components:– the conceptual component– the contextual component– the output component
The components
• The conceptual component drives the grammar, since it is within this component that a communicative intention and the corresponding mental representation arise
• The contextual component stores the information available to Speaker and Addressee at any point in discourse, thus enabling subsequent reference to the various kinds of entity introduced into the discourse
• The output component converts the output of the grammar into audible or visual form
Conceptual Component
Contextual
Component
Grammar
Output Component
Formulation
The operation of formulation converts the communicative intention (e.g. issuing a warning) and the corresponding mental representation (e.g. of the event causing danger) arising at the pre-linguistic conceptual level into interpersonal (=pragmatic) and representational (=semantic) representations
Conceptual Component
Contextual
Component
Pragmatics, Semantics
FormulationG
rammar
Output Component
Encoding
The operation of encoding maps interpersonal and representational representations onto the appropriate morphosyntactic and phonological representations
Conceptual Component
Contextual
Component
Pragmatics, Semantics
Formulation
Encoding
Morphosyntax, Phonology
Grammar
Output Component
Articulation
• The output of the grammar is input to the operation of articulation, which, in the case of an acoustic output, contains the phonetic rules necessary for producing an adequate utterance
Conceptual Component
Contextual
Component
ArticulationExpression
Pragmatics, Semantics
Formulation
Encoding
Morphosyntax, Phonology
Grammar
Output Component
Primitives
Every operation within the grammar makes us of its own set of primitives, which are the basic building blocks used by those operations in producing (intermediate) levels of representation
Conceptual Component
Contextual
Component
Articulation
Expression
Primitives
Primitives
Pragmatics, Semantics
Formulation
Encoding
Morphosyntax, Phonology
Grammar
Output Component
Feeding the contextual component
Each level of representation feeds into the contextual component, enabling subsequent reference to the various kinds of entity relevant at each level as soon as they are introduced into the discourse
Conceptual Component
Contextual
Component
Articulation
Expression
Primitives
Primitives
Pragmatics, Semantics
Formulation
Encoding
Morphosyntax, Phonology
Grammar
Output Component
Drawing on the contextual component
The formulator draws on the contextual component, so that the availability of antecedents and visible referents may influence the composition of (subsequent) discourse acts
Conceptual Component
Contextual
Component
Articulation
Expression
Primitives
Primitives
Pragmatics, Semantics
Formulation
Encoding
Morphosyntax, Phonology
Grammar
Output Component
The full picture
This leads to the following overall picture:
Conceptual Component
Contextual
Component
Articulation
Expression
Primitives
Primitives
Pragmatics, Semantics
Formulation
Encoding
Morphosyntax, Phonology
Grammar
Output Component
The organization of the grammatical component in
Functional Discourse Grammar
Formulation
The operation of formulation translates the communicative intention of the Speaker into an interpersonal representation, and the corresponding mental picture into a representational representation. It makes use of a set of primitives that consists of frames, lexemes, and primary operators
Frames, Lexemes,Primary operators Interpersonal Level
Representational Level
Formulation
Morphosyntactic encoding
The operation of morphosyntactic encoding creates a morphosyntactic representation on the basis of the information created at the interpersonal and representational levels. It makes use of a set of primitives consisting of morphosyntactic templates, free grammatical words, and secondary operators anticipating bound grammatical forms
Frames, Lexemes,Primary operators
Templates,Auxiliaries, Secondary operators
Interpersonal Level
Representational Level
Formulation
Morphosyntactic Encoding
Morphosyntactic Level
Phonological encoding
The operation of phonological encoding creates a phonological representation on the basis of the information created at the interpersonal, the representational, and the morphosyntactic levels. It makes use of a set of primitives consisting of prosodic patterns, bound grammatical morphemes, and secondary operators anticipating acoustic means of expression that are not a direct reflection of a primary operator
Frames, Lexemes,Primary operators
Templates,Auxiliaries, Secondary operators
Interpersonal Level
Representational Level
Formulation
Morphosyntactic Encoding
Morphosyntactic Level
Phonological Encoding
Phonological Level
Prosodic patterns,Morphemes, Tertiary operators
The full picture
The resulting overall model is as follows:
Frames, Lexemes,Primary operators
Templates,Auxiliaries, Secondary operators
Interpersonal Level
Representational Level
Formulation
Morphosyntactic Encoding
Morphosyntactic Level
Phonological Encoding
Phonological Level
Prosodic patterns,Morphemes, Tertiary operators
