“Un projet de justice et de progrès social”: President Macron’s 2020 new year message to the nation. A linguistic viewpoint

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Banks
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
First Person ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Subject Pronouns ◽  
Grammatical Subject ◽  
Singular Form

Abstract President Macron’s New Year message on 31 December 2019 was given against a background of social unrest due to his proposed Pension reforms. He defended his policy reiterating the phrase “un projet de justice et de progress social”, but passing responsibility for resolving the crisis to his Prime Minister. The general analytical framework is that of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Macron uses first person singular (je) and plural (nous) subject pronouns to more or less the same extent but the singular form is used mainly with mental processes and the plural with material processes. There are in addition a large number of first person pronoun references other than those that function as grammatical subject: Macron manipulates the ambiguity of the plural pronoun to associate the general public with regard to responsibility for the government’s actions. Material processes are encoded more frequently as non-finite or as nominalizations where specification of the agents is not required, than as finite verbs. Obligation is attributed to the plural nous rather than the singular je. Thus Macron defends his policies while avoiding accepting personal responsibility for them.

scholarly journals Pemaknaan Naratif Pengalaman dalam Cerpen Melayu/Narrative Experiential Meaning-making in Malay Short Stories

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Norashikin Azmi ◽  
Hanita Hassan ◽  
Wan Farah Wani Wan Fakhruddin ◽  
Zaliza Mohamad Nasir
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Material Process ◽  
Experiential Meaning

The experiential meaning-making in narrative can be studied by applying the Ideational Metafunction theoretical framework as introduced by Halliday. According to Halliday, the meaning-making can be realized by means of three Transitivity main elements found in clauses which are process, participants and circumstances. A study was conducted on three Malay short stories entitled ‘Catatan di Meja Makan’, ‘Anita’ and ‘Meneruskan Perjalanan’ by Zurinah Hassan to analyse the experiential meaning-making of narrative using Transitivity analysis from Systemic Functional Linguistics as the analytical framework. The findings of the Transitivity analysis on Malay short stories show that material process types are mostly found and followed by mental processes. This results in the most found participants are actors for material process types, whilst participants for mental processes are sensors. The findings also show that the participants for material processes can be living or non-living entities. The writer usually conveys the meaning of short stories in active forms, by which means active processes are used to illustrate the actions of participants in Malay short stories. The findings of this study are a contribution to the field of Malay language studies using the theoretical framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics, of which studies on Malay language using this theory are still lacking.

Malaysian vs Philippines News Report

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Wan Faizatul Azirah Ismayatim ◽  
Sridevi Sriniwasss ◽  
Nadiah Thanthawi Jauhari
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Main Process ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Lexical Cohesion

This paper reports on a study on Experiential meaning particularly the main process types used in the reporting of the airstrike event launched by Malaysian security forces on March 5, 2013 during the intrusion of “Sulu Sultan” followers in Lahad Datu. Data for the study comprised text reports pertinent to the airstrike event published in four different English newspapers which are The News Straits Times (NST), The Star (TS), The Philippine Daily Inquirer (TPDI) and The Philippine Star (TPS). A total of 8 texts were analysed. Various methods have been developed to study newspapers representation and stance of controversial issues which include content analysis, critical discourse analysis, lexical cohesion, the use of metaphors, transitivity and thematic analysis among others. However, the framework of transitivity has not been widely used. Hence, Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), in particular, the System of Transitivity propounded by M.A.K. Halliday (1994) was used to bridge the gap in research and the methodology of text analysis was deployed. The study revealed that NST was the only newspaper which highlighted the sorrow and the grief of Malaysians and its Prime Minister in which this newspaper accounts for the most in employing the Mental Processes, while TS, TPDI and TPS highlighted more on the physical actions and the resoluteness of both countries in handling the Lahad Datu conflict when Material Processes were dominant in these newspapers.

The discursive distribution of subject pronouns in Spanish spoken in Georgia: A weakening of pragmatic constraints?

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-126
Author(s):  
Philip P. Limerick
Keyword(s):  
Contact Hypothesis ◽  
First Person ◽  
Contrastive Focus ◽  
Subject Pronouns ◽  
Overt Pronoun ◽  
Subject Pronoun ◽  
Subject Expression

AbstractThis study examines subject expression from a pragmatic perspective in an emerging bilingual community of Roswell, Georgia, an exurb of Atlanta. Using sociolinguistic interviews conducted in Roswell, first-person singular subject pronoun (SP) usage is analyzed among 10 Mexican speakers within five distinct pragmatic contexts: salient referent, switch focus, contrastive focus, pragmatic weight, and epistemic parentheticals. A comparison is made between Georgia speakers and monolingual Mexican speakers in Querétaro in order to explore the possible weakening of pragmatic constraints due to English contact. Results indicate that a contact hypothesis is not supported in terms of overall overt pronoun usage as evidenced by similar frequencies when compared to monolingual Mexican varieties. However, an increased use of overt SPs in the context of salient referent as well as a diminished use of overt SPs in switch focus contexts is found, suggesting a potential weakened sensitivity to such pragmatic constraints.

The personal party: an analytical framework

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Calise
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Party Organization ◽  
Personal Power ◽  
Corporate Body ◽  
Skilled Professional ◽  
The World ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Cross National

IntroduzioneAfter sharing, through its various steps of evolution, the form and status of a corporate body, the party organization is falling prey to the virus of personalization, which is invading so many realms of contemporary life. Italy provides the clearest example of this cross-national trend with Silvio Berlusconi’s personal party. As a media tycoon and one of the wealthiest men in the world, Berlusconi could rely on a skilled professional apparatus as well as on huge financial means to set up, in a few months, a vote-generating machine and become a Prime Minister. His party model has been widely imitated, by both center-right and center-left organizations, with variations and deviations. This article presents an overview of the development of personal parties in Italy and an analytical framework based on Max Weber’s types of personal power.

scholarly journals The Problems of Early Childhood Education During COVID-19: An Appraisal Analysis of “Does Early Childhood Education Still Matter during Covid-19? On The Jakarta Post

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Nadiah Ma’mun ◽  
Ahdi Riyono
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
School Administration ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Appraisal System ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Alternative Solutions

This article explores the rhetoric of Yuliana in describing the difficulties of parents, teachers, and school administration during covid-19 health crisis. This study is guided by content analysis and the analytical framework of Appraisal from systemic functional linguistics, which concerned with the language of evaluation. The study reveals that in order to show the problematic matters of poor early students, their parents, the teachers, and the owner of a daycare center, Yuliana utilizes the appraisal system in a variety ways, with the aim to show some alternative solutions to the owners of the schools and the governments as to invest more because of the importance of early education for young generations for the future.

scholarly journals An Ecolinguistic Analysis of Metafunctions of Language in Pakistani COVID-19 Advertorials

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 90-98
Author(s):  
Rabia Gul ◽  
Saddam Hussain ◽  
Shaukat Ali
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Functional Linguistics

This study examines the language used in advertorials of Covid 19 from an ecolinguistic perspective. Through the ecolinguistic study of advertorials on Covid 19, the elements of fear and xenophobia are dredged up. Regarding Covid 19, little research has been carried out on advertorials. This study applies Halliday's (1970) metafunctions of language proposed in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) on Covid advertorials from the perspective of ecolinguistics. Fifty Covid 19 related advertorials from ten different Pakistani websites were selected. Five advertorials from each website were chosen. Ecolinguistic analysis of Halliday's three metafunctions was adopted as the analytical framework. The findings of the study indicated that the Covid 19 advertorials are exploited to accentuate and propagate xenophobia and fear in the ecosystem through different lexical choices. The findings of this study provide a guideline of didactic inferences for future researchers in the field.

scholarly journals Subjunctive and subject pronoun realization: a study of "no creo que"

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Harrington ◽  
Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux
Keyword(s):  
First Person ◽  
Subject Pronouns ◽  
Subjunctive Mood ◽  
Oral Speech ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Complement Clauses ◽  
Subject Pronoun ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Embedded Clause ◽  
Dependent Clause

Subjunctive mood in complement clauses is licensed under selection from certain predicates or under the scope of a modal or negation. In contexts where mood choice varies, such as the complement of a negated epistemic verb no creer, it introduces a contrast in interpretation. The subjunctive is thought to contribute to a shift in the modal anchoring of the embedded clause, and is consequently interpreted as indicative of a dissociation between the epistemic models of the speaker and the subject. We provide evidence that these uses also interact with pragmatic context. Given independent claims that 1) the overt realization of first person subject pronouns is contrastive and 2) it generally serves to anchor discourse to the speaker’s perspective and 3) overt use is particularly frequent with epistemic verbs, we examined the interaction between negation, first person subject pronoun realization, and mood of the dependent clause for the verb creer.  An analysis of oral speech from the Proyecto de Habla Culta revealed that for negative sentences (no creo que), yo is overtly realized more frequently for cases with exceptional indicative dependents than for those with canonical subjunctive dependents; there was no association with mood for affirmative uses of creer. These results support analyses where negation has specific scope over the contrastive subject, rather than over the epistemic clause. As a consequence, the matrix proposition remains an assertion and use of indicative complements is licensed.

English Curriculum Genre: Pedagogic Negotiation Patterns in the Indonesian EFL Classrooms

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Sunardi Sunardi ◽  
M. Sri Samiati Tarjana ◽  
M. Sri Samiati Tarjana ◽  
Soepomo Poedjosoedarmo ◽  
Soepomo Poedjosoedarmo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Exchange Structure ◽  
Efl Classrooms ◽  
Participatory Observation

This study aims at finding the schematic structures of English curriculum genres in Indonesian university context and the patterns of pedagogic negotiation that enact the learning activities. The data of this study were video-taped EFL classrooms taught by non-native English lecturers at six universities in Semarang. The discourses were collected by video recording and transcription, non-participatory observation, and interview. The data were analyzed by referring to the analytical framework of curriculum genre and pedagogic exchanges under systemic functional linguistics (SFL). The findings show that the EFL classrooms are carried out in three general stages: orientation stage, discussion stage, and closure stage. Each stage is operated through several smaller potential steps. In terms of exchange structure, the negotiation between teachers and students occurs more frequently in knowledge-oriented exchanges than action-oriented exchanges. In addition, the teachers use two types of pedagogic exchanges: the triadic pedagogic exchanges and the scaffolded pedagogic exchanges.  

scholarly journals What do subject pronouns do in discourse? Cognitive, mechanical and constructional factors in variation

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 711-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine E. Travis, ◽  
Rena Torres Cacoullos,
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Mechanical Effect ◽  
First Person ◽  
Testing Hypotheses ◽  
Subject Pronouns ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Subject Expression ◽  
Intonation Unit

AbstractIn languages with variable subject expression, or “pro-drop” languages, when do speakers use subject pronouns? We address this question by investigating the linguistic conditioning of Spanish first-person singular pronoun yo in conversational data, testing hypotheses about speakers' choice of an expressed subject as factors in multivariate analysis. Our results indicate that, despite a widely held understanding of a contrastive role for subject pronouns, yo expression is primarily driven by cognitive, mechanical and constructional factors. In cognitive terms, we find that yo is favored in the presence of human subjects intervening between coreferential 1sg subjects (a refined measure of the well-described phenomenon of “switch-reference”). A mechanical effect is observed in two distinct manifestations of priming: the increased rate of yo when the previous coreferential first singular subject was realized as yo and when the subject of the immediately preceding clause was realized pronominally. And evidence for a particular yo + cognitive verb construction is provided by a speaker-turn effect, the favoring of yo in a turn-initial Intonation Unit, that is observed with cognitive (but not other) verbs, which form a category centered around high frequency yo creo ‘I think’.

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