"What is a mode?"

Berit Hendriksen and Gunther Kress discuss the notions of 'mode', 'resource', 'affordance' and 'sign'.

[@Liliquan]

It should be noted that the sentence “it is raining”, the “it” is only required in “subject-prominent” languages like English. In “topic-prominent” languages like Chinese, the “dummy subject” it, would never be used.

[@saranemcova5448]

Czech also does not use "it", and I am pretty sure most Slavic languages do not use "it" in this sentence. I wonder how many languages are "subject-prominent", then...

[@bruhwillie8115]

Great piece! very helpful... i needed this

[@jannisandroutsopoulos5708]

Very useful, thank you, Jeff!

[@DawahBroAustria]

Thank you this was very helpful!

[@eman3754]

Thank you so much. Could you kindly tell me when and where is this conversation from?

[@huiyu5828]

thank you

[@dayse2355]

What's the sequence?