Grammar, language and the social: Poststructuralism and systemic‐functional linguistics

1993 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cate Poynton
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals interpersonal meaning in students' explanation texts

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Dini Hadiani
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

This study is aimed to investigate the interpersonal meaning in students’ explanation texts. Six texts taken from students’ writings were used as the instruments of text analysis. The theories of Systemic Functional Linguistics and explanation text were used as the framework of the text analysis. The findings show that students have employed mood types which are formed by the Subject and Finite as Mood element and predicator and complement as Residue. The arrangement of Subject and Finite in the clauses demonstrates that declarative mood is used dominantly in the texts to realize the speech function of a statement. It suggests that the students have attempted to provide the information to the readers which are relevant to the social function of the explanation text. Moreover, the little use of modality in students’ texts indicates that the students present factual information. This evidence has shown the students’ efforts to position themselves in the texts and to build relationships with the readers. In conclusion, students have been able to create an effective explanation text which is intended to inform how something is done.

scholarly journals Negotiating The Social Relationships Through The Discourse of Social Networking Sites (SNSs) Commenting on West Java Paragliding World Championship (WJPWC) 2019

CALL ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suroto Suroto ◽  
Ika Yatmikasari
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Appraisal Theory ◽  
West Java ◽  
World Championship ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
The Social

The Research analyzes how the social relationships are negotiated through the discourse of social networking sites in the form of Facebook status commenting on West Java Paragliding World Championship (WJPWC) 2019. The analysis focuses on how the participant tells her feelings about things and people through her Facebook status during the WJPWC event. By the qualitative descriptive method, the Facebook status of a paragliding legend was analyzed using the interpersonal metafunction of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics and appraisal theory of Martin and Rose. Using the interpersonal metafunction, the attitudes and judgments of the participant are evaluated based on the speech roles, mood types, and modalities used in the text. The appraisal theory is used for further evaluation to know how the feelings of the participant by evaluating (1) the kinds of attitudes (affect, judgment and appreciation), (2) the attitude resources, and  (3) how the attitudes are amplified. The result showed that the participant through her four Facebook status consisted of 26 clauses used the speech roles of giving information in the mood types of declarative. By the mood types, the participant directly and explicitly showed the positive attitudes commenting on the WJPWC event and realized in several linguistic realizations. The participant who roles as the attitude resources expressed her feelings in three main types of attitudes; (1) her positive affect or feelings, (2) her positive judgment of personal and moral, and (3) her positive and negative appreciation of valuing thing during the WJPWC event. The participant also used several metaphors that play important roles in constructing her gradable feelings and emotion.Keywords: Appraisal Theory, Attitude Evaluation, Interpersonal metafunction,                   Systemic Functional Linguistics

scholarly journals SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS OF POLITICAL ARTICLES IN EASTERN AND WESTERN ONLINE NEWS

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 24-31
Author(s):  
Ali Hussein Abdulameer ◽  
Siti Noor Fazelah Mohd Noor ◽  
Wisam Khalis Nasser
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Online News ◽  
Functional Study ◽  
The Political ◽  
Online Newspapers ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Verbal Processes

Purpose of study: Political discourse causes a large attendance, due to their influence on economic, cultural and societal. The current study investigates 80 political articles in Eastern and Western online news by applied transitivity analysis under the systemic functional study by (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2014). Methodology: The study employs qualitative analysis the systemic functional linguistics with Critical discourse analysis to find out the answers for the next two questions: First, How the transitivity process recognizes the experiential meaning in the social actor's discourse in the Western and Eastern online news? Second, what are the differences or similarities in the social actor's discourse in Eastern and Western online news? The documentation method uses to collect data from the two online newspapers, from Eastern (Al JAZEERA) and from Western news (THE GUARDIAN) from 6th December 2017 to 13th May 2018. Main Findings: The main findings show that verbal processes, is most predominant in social actors discourse in Eastern especially Turkish’s president mostly used the processes and in Western France president mostly used transitivity processes in online news and followed by relational, and mental. Implications/Applications: On the basis of the study, can be better to understand the thinking manner and cultural features and the attitudes and judgments of the political in East and West. Originality/Novelty of Study: Many Researchers like Naz, Alvi, and Baseer (2012), Farhat (2016) and Xiaowan (2018) utilized transitivity processes to study political discourse. The researcher can’t find any study employs Transitivity processes to investigate the political articles in Eastern and Western online news consider Trump’s decision after declared Jerusalem as Israel capital on 6th December 2017.  

scholarly journals Adichie’s Thematic Construction of a Post-Colonial Nigerian Nation-State in Two Excerpts from Her Purple Hibiscus: An Experiential Meaning Scrutiny

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
Daniel T. Yokossi ◽  
Léonard A. Koussouhon
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
World View ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Verbal Processes ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Experiential Meaning

Abstract This article digs into Adichie’s world view of the post-colonial Nigeria via her use of the English language in two extracts culled from her Purple Hibiscus. To go into details, the study examines how Adichie makes use of particular types of transitivity patterns to weave into her text her thematic construction of Nigeria after independence. To this end, the Experiential Meaning has been used as a theoretical lens given that the exploration of the transitivity properties in/of a text can provide a full insight into how the writer encodes his/her experience of the world therein as advocated by Systemic Functional Linguistics scholars like Halliday (1971/1976), and his followers Hassan (1985/1989), Eggins (2004), and Matthiessen (2004/2006). As a matter of fact, the study offers a linguistic analysis of the selected extracts, a summary of the findings, and the ensuing interpretation. Actually, the interpretation of the findings has revealed that Adichie has encoded tremendous meanings through her outstanding use of such process types as material, mental and verbal processes. The distribution of these key processes in the analyzed extracts per participant has also highlighted both some of the author's key characters and to what extent these latter ones embody her perceptions of the social, religious and political issues that she artistically tries to castigate in her novel under examination. The study ultimately opens up to further explorations embracing such other fields of the Systemic Functional Linguistics as the interpersonal and textual meanings.

scholarly journals Sprogvidenskab og virksomhedskommunikation

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (34) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Flemming Smedegaard Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Business Communication ◽  
Advertising Agencies ◽  
Communication Analysis ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

In recent years, the humanities and particularly linguistics have gained an increasing influence within the field of business communication. Business communication has traditionally been seen as a discipline within the social sciences, and for instance copy writing has conventionally been an issue for advertising agencies or advertising departments, not an area for academic research. In this article I shall demonstrate how a linguistic theory as Systemic Functional Linguistics is developing within the studies of business communication at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. I shall argue why Systemic Functional Linguistics is useful for business communication in general, and how Systemic Functional Linguistics can be used not only for copy writing but also for communication analysis, organizational culture analysis and communication and campaign planning.

scholarly journals Língua inglesa como liíngua adicional: cultura e contextos (English as additional language: culture and context)

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Carine Haupt ◽  
Miliane Moreira Cardoso Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
English Language ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Learning Culture ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Intercultural Skills ◽  
The Social

Neste artigo, discutimos as implicações do aprendizado da cultura no ensino da Língua Inglesa como Língua Adicional. Assim, trazemos conceitos referentes ao termo cultura para defender a ideia de que desenvolver uma língua adicional não significa apenas adquirir vocabulário e gramática. É necessário também desenvolver competências interculturais, para entender as normas que regulam a interação social da língua estudada. Não obstante, este artigo traz também os conceitos da estratificação da Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional (LSF), que discutem a noção de contextos. Essa noção é fundamental, pois as escolhas linguísticas realizadas por cada usuário da língua são associadas a esses contextos.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: LSF. Cultura. Contextos. Língua Adicional. Língua Inglesa. ABSTRACTIn this article, we discuss the implications of learning culture in the teaching of English as an Additional Language. Thus, we bring concepts related to the culture term in order to defend the idea that developing an additional language does not just mean acquiring vocabulary and grammar. It is also necessary to develop intercultural skills to understand the rules that govern the social interaction of the language under investigation. Nevertheless, this article also brings the concepts of stratification of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), which discusses the notion of contexts. This notion is fundamental because linguistic choices, made by each user of the language, are associated with these contexts.KEYWORDS: SFL. Culture. Context. Additional Language. English Language.

scholarly journals The Interpersonal Metafunction and Translation of Power Relations: A Case Study of Fifty Shades of Grey

MANUSYA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Pasakara Chueasuai
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Contemporary Novel ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Thai Language ◽  
Role Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fifty Shades Of Grey

This article aims at analysing how Systemic Functional Linguistics’ interpersonal metafunction can inform us about the notion of power relations expressed in both the original English version and its Thai translation in a case study of the popular contemporary novel Fifty Shades of Grey written by E.L. James in 2011. The study analyses conversations between the two main characters, Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, taking place during their intimate acts which clearly demonstrate the two main characters’ power relations. Systemic Functional Linguistics’ interpersonal metafunction is concerned with the social role relationship between text participants and is applied as an analytical tool in order to see how it can explain the notion of power relations when one communicative participant has more power than the other. Analysing the mood structure of lexico-grammar (Eggins, 2004) at the textual level has found two types of clause, imperative and declarative, that are used to construct the notion of power relations between the two characters. Examining interpersonal metafunction’s tenor regarding power, contact and affective involvement further explains the notion of power relations occurring on the contextual plane. Although the findings demonstrate a certain degree of difference in the representation of power in the Thai translated version of the novel, that is, in the use of final particles; it is a characteristic of the Thai language that does not exist in English.

scholarly journals Speech Function and Process in Fake News

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Dian Zelina Fitriyani ◽  
Eddy Setia ◽  
Masdiana Lubis
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Twitter Account ◽  
Support Team ◽  
Context Of Situation ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Relational Process

This paper deals with speech function and process found in the fake news in social media Twitter. The data used in this research are 66 clauses in the tweets about political sessions updated by the Twitter account @makLambeTurah and analysed qualitatively by applying Systemic Functional Linguistics theory. The result of the analysis shows that the most dominant speech function found in the fake news in the social media is the “statement” with relational process as the highest appearance. It means that the fake news writer, as the support team of the candidate, uses “statement” in sharing ideas, information, and issues to the readers and expects the readers to receive them, and also persuades the readers to believe and change their mind. The result also reveals that such speech function and process happen due to the relational status between the fake news writer and the candidates (politicians) he supports, that is PDIP, and the context of situation, that is in the Regional Election 2018.

The interpersonal strand of political speech

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zohar Livnat ◽  
Beverly A. Lewin
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Political Speech ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Speeches ◽  
Dialogic Interaction

The present study offers an underlying theoretical framework for examining political speeches from a rhetorical perspective. This framework is based on systemic functional linguistics developed by Halliday (most recently updated by Halliday and Matthiessen 2014), and includes discourse structures suggested by later authors. We suggest that the interpersonal stratum of meaning, through which we manage social relations, represents a powerful resource for creating a dialogue with the audience in order to recruit it to a politician’s call for action. To address this issue, we analyzed ten speeches delivered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to five different international audiences. We examined strategies that foster dialogic interaction with the audience, by directly addressing them, or otherwise acknowledging their presence. The interpersonal strategies we identified combine into larger domains which we term forming social bonds, building a consensus and revealing ideology. These strategies may be salient because they tap into various aspects of the audience’s experience and identity: the social, affective, and ideological spheres.

scholarly journals BAHASA DEMOKRATIS DI DALAM MEDIA TELEVISI INDONESIA

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Riyadi Santosa
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Main Issue ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
Talk Show ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
The Social

This research attempts to depicts the language used in Indonesian television, especially in news, editorial, and talk show in post reform era. The main issue in this research is the language used in Indonesian television contributes to the formation of democracy in this country. To answer the question, this research applies Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) that is able to portray the social processes and the language that is representation of the social processes, including their genres and registers. The results show that news exploits recount whereas editorial and talk show employ discussion genre. The recount and discussion genres in news and editorial and talk show accelerate the atmosphere of democratization in Indonesia. News provides facts and phenomena whereas editorial and talk show discusses them.  However, in the level of register, editorial and talk show exploit the use of more raised evaluation that a number of communication experts believe that Indonesian editorial and talk show go beyond the democracy level or are still provocative.<br />Keywords: Bahasa Demokratis, Genre, Register, Appraisal<br /><br />

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