I checked Wiki, and it cites terms quite different from Anglo/Australian ones as late as the mid 1980s (so they are the terms most readers/ listeners would know). I note that Wiki states:

these various approaches with their own “register” or set of terms and meanings fall under disciplines such as sociolinguistics, stylistics, pragmatics or systemic functional grammar

hence there seems to be no agreed set of terms. Some of those used in the sort of analysis Arts faculties required, included: sense, feeling, tone, intention, voice, occasion.

Oh bummer! - G8 host Silvio Berlusconi's eye for younger ladies is well known but squeaky clean Barack Obama showed he's not above the odd backward glance.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25760252-5001021,00.html

Apparently the La Gillardine disease is catching, even for Obi.

Bob Brown has for many years criticised things that the main parties will not, or can not do. Examples include he invasion of Tibet, the general lack of civil rights and the high levels of government executions.

This principled stand is something that minor parties find easier to do than major parties that might have to work with China once they are in government.

I would be wary of conflating opportunistic braying of Turnbull with the steady, principled approach of Bob Brown

The “HAT”?! You’ll love today’s on-line story;
“An initial batch of 100 of the so-called Highly Accomplished Teacher positions will be advertised in NSW in October before the plan is rolled out across the rest of Australia.”
(NSW plan puts ‘super teachers’ in worst schools
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25760627-12377,00.html)
I guess these HATs will be doing “The CAT in the HAT”. (Victorians may remember the Common Assessment Tasks of the VCE.)

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25760613-601,00.html

I remember the occasions on which the Democrats would claim that they were going to win lower house single-member seats, to no avail apart from in SA where I think Robin Millhouse held one after he moved across from the Liberal Movement.

Tom (2205),

I do mean “Western Victoria”, but I did not write “Western Metropolitan”, though I understand why you thought I did. I said, “The seat I was referring to was Western, not Northern Metropolitan.” If I had meant “Western Metropolitan”, I would have written, “The seat I was referring to was Western, not Northern, Metropolitan.” As an English pedant, I understand the importance of commas. I am anti-communist, not anti-commaist.

To be clear, I should have written, “The seat I was referring to was Western Victoria, not Northern Metropolitan.”