Which Halliday metafunction creates a coherent flow of discourse from the other two?
AIdeational
BInterpersonal
CConative
DTextual
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Textual
1. The textual metafunction acts on the other two modes of meaning.
2. It weaves them together into text, the wording.
3. Ideational and interpersonal supply the content and relations.
_Source: Wikipedia, Systemic functional linguistics, Multidimensional semiotic system_
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