How patent can patents be?

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-197
Author(s):  
Carmen Sancho ◽  
Ismael Arinas Pellón
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Complex Network ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Explicit Instruction ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Approach ◽  
Authorial Voice

This paper examines the import of figurative language (specifically of conceptual and grammatical metaphors) in the discourse of engineering patents, a genre hardly researched for stylistic and pedagogical purposes and traditionally regarded as highly impersonal. To that end, a corpus of over 300 US electro-mechanical patents has been analysed with the aid of a concordancing tool and applying a threefold convergent framework that gathers the metafunctions of Systemic Functional Linguistics (Halliday, 1978, 1985), the Applied Linguistic Approach to Metaphor (Low, 2008) and the Metadiscursive Approach (Hyland, 2000, 2005). Findings reveal a complex network of metaphorical schemata, most non-deliberate, which constitute a tripartite choice dependent on the legal culture, the discipline and, to a lesser extent, on the authorial voice. It also binds patent writers into a community of practice (Wenger, 1998) sharing a phraseological repertoire basically acquired by imitation and whose creative and confident use requires explicit instruction.

Narrative Appraisal as a Linguistic Approach to Evaluation in Text: The Case of Pronouns

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Conway
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Appraisal Theory ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Relevant Role ◽  
Evaluative Language ◽  
Political Speeches ◽  
Linguistic Approach

Unlike modern narrative, which often goes into great detail in order to develop characters and themes, the narrator in the Old Testament is reticent, and the narrative is typically terse. There are many ambiguous passages involving actions of dubious propriety, resulting in readers being uncertain how to assess characters and draw ideological conclusions from their actions. It is too easy for modern readers to filter interpretive decisions through their presuppositions and values. Appraisal theory, an area of systemic functional linguistics, acts not to eliminate but to constrain the subjectivity of the interpreter and increase the transparency of the process by looking for specific linguistic signals in the text that can be presented as evidence. These instantiations are drawn mainly from the interpersonal metafunction, but also involve the textual and ideational metafunctions. J.R. Martin and P.R.R. White developed a system network through which text is processed in order to identify evaluative language; however, their work is based primarily on contemporary English texts of a rhetorical nature, such as political speeches and reviews. This article presents a modified system network, the “Narrative Appraisal Method,” adapted for Hebrew narrative texts. It operates not only at the level of the clause but also at higher levels of discourse. It takes into consideration the characteristics of narrative and the point of view of the evaluator. The article provides specific examples of the results the methodology yields from the book of Judges, focusing on situations in which pronominal forms play a relevant role.

scholarly journals La fuerza en la construcción del marco teórico en artículos científicos: un análisis desde la lingüística sistémico-funcional

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-91
Author(s):  
Norma Patricia Barletta ◽  
Diana Chamorro ◽  
Jorge Mizuno
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Authorial Voice

Opposite to what is traditionally stated, the theoretical framework often constitutes an independent section in research articles. Therein writers establish the theoretical tradition that supports their research and make an account of the theoretical and research developments in their discipline, specifically, in their topic of research, thus establishing a dialogue with other voices. This article examines how writers organize their theoretical framework by means of verbal clauses using the resources of the graduation subsystem proposed by the systemic functional linguistics to express force —which will help them to construct their authorial voice. This study analyzed the verbal clauses and the graduation resources of the theoretical frameworks in 20 research articles in Spanish language published in Colombian journals from the area of applied linguistics. Findings show the variety of resources deployed by writers in their verbal clauses to strengthen their commitment to their tenets, especially in prominent places of their theoretical framework, such as the macroTheme, hyperThemes, macroNew and hyperNew. Awareness of these theoretical framework features may be relevant for teaching academic writing.

An Exploratory Study of Cohesive features in Selected Excerpts from Sefiata’s News from Home

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Innocent Sourou Koutchadé
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Lexical Cohesion ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Approach

This article aimed at providing a linguistic analysis of Sefi Atta’s novel entitled News from Home through the linguistic approach of cohesion drawn from Systemic Functional Linguistics. Two extracts were selected randomly from the novel and a descriptive mixed method of analysis was adopted. Aspects of cohesion studied in the text were reference, conjunction and lexical cohesion. The analyses revealed that various types of reference such as anaphoric, cataphoric, demonstrative, exophoric, and homophoric occurred in the selected texts. Features of conjunctions were used by the writer to display the logical relationships between elements of the texts. As for lexical cohesion, patterns of reiteration and collocation were used to point out the field of the study. The paper concluded that these cohesive patterns are organized to reveal the texture of the text.

scholarly journals Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) Approach and Sports Texts of the Postgraduate Students at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahmatullah Katawazai ◽  
Wali Khan Monib ◽  
Mohammad Sharif Hassanzoy ◽  
Ziauddin Quvanch ◽  
Noor Abidah Mohd Omar
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Dominant Process ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Linguistic Approach

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the scripts entitled ‘‘Sports’’ in terms of processes used and text type based on (Halliday, 1994) Systemic Functional Linguistic approach. Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is looking into the syntactic structure of a clause based on six processes including material, mental and relational process (major category) and verbal, behavioral, and existential processes (minor category). Forty (40) students of the subject ‘Dynamics of Leadership’ at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia were assigned to write essays about ‘Sports’ in between 300—400 words within thirty (30) minutes and sixteen (16) essays were selected for the analysis. Researchers used mixed-method in order to analyze both quantitative (numerical) and qualitative (descriptive) data. All the collected essays were analyzed and then the percentage of all the six processes has been shown in descriptive statistics and interpreted in tabulations and bar graphs. The findings indicate that the dominant process used in all the scripts was material—doing and happening— and subsequently relational. Focusing more on nominalization, the analyzed manuscripts were found to be wordy.

scholarly journals Authorial Voice Behind the Use of Multimodal Metaphors in Fashion Magazine Advertising

2013 ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Victoria Martín de la Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Fashion Magazine ◽  
Advertising Discourse ◽  
Linguistic Approaches ◽  
Authorial Voice

This paper proposes the integration into a coherent whole of current insights from two linguistic approaches, cognitive and systemic functional linguistics, with the aim of trying to develop an analytical tool that will allow users a deeper understanding when examining advertising discourse, which is characterized by relying on a multimodal universe since two are the semiotic modes used: language and pictures. Under this framework, two different advertisements, taken from two magazines, Telva and Gentleman, have been analyzed with specific attention to the role of the authorial voice. The goal is twofold: firstly to investigate how, in every advertisement, this multimodality works towards presenting a particular product from a very desirable and attractive perspective; and secondly to unravel the values and ideology behind the use of this type of discourse. The results show that values such as those of exclusivity or refinement (first advert) or having a perfect shape (second advert) are highly valued in the culture where those adverts are embedded.

scholarly journals Material Processes in English Clause of Life Insurance: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Ponia Mega Septiana ◽  
Eva Tuckyta Sari Sujatna ◽  
Rosaria Mita Amalia
Keyword(s):  
Life Insurance ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽  
Material Process ◽  
Linguistic Approach ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The research is about the material processes that apply in English clause of Life Insurance. The data are taken from the brochure of Life Insurance in five different companies. They are analyzed based on the theories of systemic functional linguistics focusing on the material process. This research uses a descriptive qualitative method. The conclusions of the research are the lexical verbs describe the type of material processes in Life Insurance brochures there are offer, receive, protect, provide, customize, request, access, earn, allow, decrease, increase, lock, change, add, choose, take, pay, buy, build, work, help, and give. Then the role of the participant involved that are actor, goal, and recipient.

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