The value of a pragma-functional approach to intercultural conflict discourses

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margo Lecompte-Van Poucke
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Intercultural Conflict ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Linguistic Patterns ◽  
Context Of Situation ◽  
Political Decision Making

Abstract Systemic functional linguistics focuses on the study of language use within its registerial context of situation. The theory offers a meaning-based approach for the analysis of discourses in generic and culture-specific settings. When it comes to the analysis of conflict discourses across cultural boundaries, SFL may be integrated into a framework that relates language use to the notions of power and ideology and the dimensions of culture and history to provide a broader picture to inform future political decision-making. This paper presents a pragma-functional approach combining systemic functional linguistics, argumentation theory, critical theory and postcolonial insights. The analytical tool is illustrated with reference to the New Caledonian independence debate through the analysis of salient linguistic patterns and discursive moves in two open letters, published in April 1988, by Kanak independence leader Jean-Marie Tjibaou and former French President François Mitterrand.

scholarly journals Interpersonal Meaning Analysis in the Tale’s Story of Sabai Nan Aluih

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-65
Author(s):  
Yenita Uswar ◽  
Nova Andriani
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Meaning Analysis ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a study of language which views language as two characteristics, systemic and functional. With using SFL, the researchers try to analyze the tale’s story of Sabai Nan Aluih. The research aim is to identify the interpersonal meaning realized in that story and to reveal the speech function of language use in that story. The research design of this analysis is descriptive qualitative research. The object of this research is the interpersonal meaning analysis of clauses as exchange in the tale of Sabai Nan Aluih. The data of this research is the clauses as exchange in the story of Sabai Nan Aluih. The source of data which is used in this research is the documentation of the data research paper. The researchers use document analysis from the story of Sabai Nan Aluih as collecting data. The data is analyzed by using description method. In the interpersonal analysis, declarative mood dominates almost the story, it is about 91 %. And, the data analysis of speech function is found in the story of Sabai Nan Aluih, statement, question and command, in where statement is domination from the story about 94%. Thus, it is important that the using of interpersonal meaning and the speech function of the story of Sabai Nana Aluih is as information

Context of situation and the role of language

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy L. Bowcher
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Systemic Approach ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Field System ◽  
Context Of Situation ◽  
The Way

Abstract ‘Role’ is typically defined according to the part and/or function that something or someone contributes to a situation. This two-fold perspective is also inherent in discussions of the role of language: the ‘amount’ of language that is involved in a situation and the ‘function’ of language in a situation, with both perspectives relating to the non-linguistic systems that may be involved in the conduct of the situation relative to language. It is the latter of these perspectives, however, that has typically received most attention in discourse analysis, with the former (the ‘amount’) being left implicit and unproblematised. This paper considers the role of language from various discourse analytical perspectives before critically examining the concept within Systemic Functional Linguistics. Using system networks as the representational and analytical platform, the paper redefines ‘role of language’ in contextual Mode as comprised of two sub-systems: degree of involvement and type of involvement. degree of involvement accounts for the compositional contribution that language makes in a situation; type of involvement accounts for the way in which language may function in a situation. Using an illustrative dataset, the paper also demonstrates the effectiveness of the systemic approach in accounting for overlapping and differing contextual configurations by showing how features within the role of language configure and how these in turn configure with options in the Field system-network of action. These configurations are essentially hypotheses that can be more comprehensively tested through empirical research.

scholarly journals Thai persuasive discourse: a systemic functional approach to an analysis of amulet advertisements

2009 ◽  
pp. 195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pattama Patpong
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Printed Media ◽  
Persuasive Strategies ◽  
Persuasive Discourse ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Contextual Values

Advertisements, as a distinct register or text type, are characterized by particular patterns of language with underlying meaning of purchasing a promoted product (Toolan, 1988). Thus advertisement is a good example of the creative use of persuasive strategies which can be illustrated through language. This study aims to explore amulet advertisements as examples of persuasive discourse widely found in Thailand. In the Thai context, the advertising of amulets and Buddha images seem prevalent in a wide range of printed media – leaflets, newspapers, magazines, and books. Data for this paper are drawn from three amulet advertisements (collected from March 2005 to March 2007). All of them are taken from Thailand’s best selling printed newspaper – Thairath. The linguistic framework used in this study is Systemic Functional Linguistics, initially developed by Michael A. K. Halliday. Two key aspects of SFL are analysed – context and lexicogrammar strata. Based on the Thai context, three contextual values – field, tenor, and mode are discussed. In terms of lexicogrammatical analysis, the study will focus on an exploration of three metafunctions – textual, interpersonal, and experiential.

scholarly journals The Conceptualization of Genre in Systemic Functional Linguistics

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-99
Author(s):  
Hesham Suleiman Alyousef ◽  
Asma Mohammed Alyahya
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Semiotic System ◽  
Situational Context ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Semiotic Systems ◽  
Rhetorical Features ◽  
Context Of Situation ◽  
Stratified Model

Genre constitutes the rhetorical features of a text and the semiotic communicative purpose(s) it serves. It has marveled Systemic Functional Linguistics’ (SFL) scholars as to whether it should be treated as an aspect of the situational context (register) or as a distinct cultural semiotic system that correlates with texture- i.e. the three register categories of field, tenor, and mode. This paper aims to review the conceptualization of genre in the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) tradition. Whereas Halliday associates genre with mode, Martin coordinates the three register variables of field, tenor, and mode in relation to social purpose. The elements of a schematic structure are generated by genre networks, which in turn preselect particular values of field, tenor and mode in a given culture. Both Halliday's context of situation and Martin’s context of culture levels are dynamic connotative semiotic systems through which new meanings are created by the three processes of semogenesis. Genre is conceived as a distinct cultural semiotic system, rather than an aspect of ‘mode’, that correlates with texture. Martin later avoided the intertextual glosses context of culture and context of situation since Halliday used them for instantiation, and not supervenience. The three register variables of language organize information at the level of genre into coherent texts. Modelled as register and genre, the stratified model of context configures meanings not only through discourse semantics, lexicogrammar, and phonology but also through the prosodic phases of evaluation. Halliday calls this model appliable linguistics since it enables us to develop a powerful model of language that is both “theoretical” and “applied” (Mahboob & Knight, 2010).

Language patterns and ATTITUDE

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Bednarek
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Appraisal Theory ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Corpus Linguistic ◽  
Linguistic Evidence ◽  
Linguistic Patterns ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Evaluative Meaning ◽  
Preliminary Classification

Interpersonal or evaluative meaning has been described in systemic functional linguistics with the help of appraisal theory (Martin & White 2005), which distinguishes between different types of evaluation. One sub-system of APPRAISAL is ATTITUDE, which is further divided into APPRECIATION, JUDGEMENT and AFFECT. This paper uses corpus-linguistic evidence to investigate how far linguistic patterns support this classification, and whether they can be used as a ‘diagnostic’ for distinguishing types of ATTITUDE (as has been proposed in appraisal theory). It argues that two different aspects of APPRAISAL need to be considered: the kinds of attitudinal lexis (in terms of evaluative standards which are inscribed in this lexis) and the kinds of attitudinal targets or types of attitudinal assessment, and that this distinction has not been sufficiently considered in appraisal theory so far. A preliminary classification of attitudinal lexis is also suggested, and a new sub-category of ATTITUDE proposed (COVERT AFFECT).

Mathematical meaning-making in whole-class conversation

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betina Zolkower ◽  
Elizabeth de Freitas
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Mathematical Meaning ◽  
Experienced Teacher ◽  
Generic Structure ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Problem Framing ◽  
Context Of Situation ◽  
Grade Classroom

This paper focuses on a brief whole-group conversation captured in a sixth grade classroom taught by an experienced teacher. Drawing upon systemic functional linguistics, we treat the conversation as a multi-semiotic text of the genre of teacher-guided mathematics problem framing. After describing the generic structure of the text and its context of situation, we analyze the ideational, interpersonal, and textual meanings students and teacher contributed to its conjoined making. Our analysis shows how the text means as it does and, in so doing, underlines those features that make it a paradigmatic instantiation of its genre. We conclude by highlighting the contribution of systemic functional linguistics to current conversations about thought and language, dialogue and representation, and context and text.

Studying the language of Dutch audio description

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Reviers
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Audio Description ◽  
Linguistic Patterns ◽  
Audiovisual Translation

Abstract The present paper aims to combine insights from Applied Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Multimodality Research and Audiovisual Translation Studies in order to explore language use in a specific form of audiovisual translation, namely Audio Description (AD) for the blind and visually impaired. It is said that the communicative function of ADs and their multimodal context have a significant influence on the lexical, grammatical and syntactical choices describers make. This article aims to uncover these idiosyncratic linguistic patterns by conducting a quantitative and qualitative analysis of an annotated, audiovisual corpus of 39 Dutch films and series that have been released with AD in Flanders and the Netherlands. The paper analyses frequency lists, keywords, part-of-speech distributions and type-token ratios statistically and subsequently conducts a qualitative analysis taking systemic functional linguistics as a theoretical framework. The results confirm the hypothesis that the language of AD is idiosyncratic and highlight the most salient lexico-grammatical features characterising the language of Dutch AD.

scholarly journals Age-related differences in language use within the mathematical register

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 115-128
Author(s):  
Rod E Case ◽  
Pete Cobin ◽  
Gwedolyn Williams
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Test Of Independence ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Mathematical Explanations ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Chi Square Test ◽  
Mathematical Register

The struggles that learners face as they attempt to produce mathematical explanations have been widely documented from researchers working in the systemic functional linguistics tradition. The approach has been to isolate specific grammatical patterns which differ across the natural and mathematical register and then argue that these represent a source of trouble for learners. This manuscript explores the extent to which age accounts for differences in the production of explanations within the mathematical register, but does so from a cognitive linguistic tradition.Data was collected over three weeks from 50 students, 30 boys and 20 girls in five different classrooms. A Chi-Square test of independence demonstrated age-related differences in the use of six different grammatical patterns within the mathematical register. The larger argument is made that producing explanations within the mathematical register relies more on the strategic use of multiple grammatical patterns and semantic forms than the mastery of a single grammatical pattern. 

scholarly journals MISCOMMUNICATION IN INTER CULTURE INTERACTION IN SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
I Ketut Suardana
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Interaction Process ◽  
Local People ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽  
Context Of Situation

Bali is one of tourism objects visited by either domestic or international guests because Bali has been trusted to have uniqueness of culture, safety, cleanness and other reasons. Of course, in the process of interaction involving local people and guests (either domestic and international). Miscommunication often occurs in interpreting something during interaction process. One of the reasons is misunderstanding culture owned by the speaker and listener. Doing interaction language is involved in which culture is inside of language. To succeed communication, both speaker and listener must apply the concept of context of situation involving field, tenor and mode purposed by Halliday.This paper focuses on miscommunication caused by misunderstanding of application of context of situation in community. Halliday stated that whatever we spoke, listen, read and wrote was called text. This paper will analyze miscommunication from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) specially context of situation. Therefore, the title of the paper is “MISCOMMUNICATION IN INTER CULTURE INTERACTION IN SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE”. This paper analyzes some kinds of miscommunication which occurred in community. The result of research is that misinterpretation of text is caused by misunderstanding of cultureKeywords: field, tenor, mode, social interaction

Register in Systemic Functional Linguistics*

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Language Evolution ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Indelible Mark ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Register Variation ◽  
International Language ◽  
Active Researcher ◽  
Register Studies ◽  
Descriptive Models

Abstract Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen elaborates on the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) approach to register in this contribution to the inaugural issue of Register Studies. He is Chair Professor of the Department of English at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he pursues a scholarly agenda that includes developing the theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics and applying it to text and discourse analysis, functional grammar, issues related to language evolution and typology, and comprehensive descriptive models of register. Throughout his career, Matthiessen has made major contributions to SFL theories and methods. Among his major works is Lexicogrammatical Cartography: English Systems (1995, International Language Sciences Publishers). More than any other scholar, Matthiessen has expounded on Halliday’s early ideas on register and applied SFL theory to describing models of register variation. He remains an active researcher in the area of register studies which includes his registerial cartography – the comprehensive and systematic description of the registers in a language. Matthiessen’s work has left an indelible mark on the theory and systematic study of patterns of register in language use.

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