So far, our investigation of both personal tenor (e.g. casual, deferential) and functional tenor (detached reporting, involved persuasion), with technicality and role relationships (e.g. informer, arguer) forming the two basic aspects of functional tenor, has highlighted some basic differences in how language varies. This is an institutional issue and may thus be usefully viewed in terms of the use and user of language
Rather, they perceive field, tenor and mode respectively in terms of:
attitudes and assessment by speakers of what is happening around and through them (interpersonal resources);
how ideational and interpersonal expression acquires cohesion and coherence in a given textual environment (textual resources).
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