This paper presents work-in-progress on the contextual variable tenor, here reconceptualised as ‘interactant
relations’ in order to explore a radically different view of the relations of the interactants to the text in context. The
functions of speaker/addressee are the starting point of an exploration of interactant relations because they represent the only
features with the capacity to manage a text’s processes. This view implies that speaker/addressee have the capacity to internalise
communal conventions, which places them at the centre of the language process. Implications of the results of the exploration for
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