Policy, politics, and social control: A systemic functional linguistic analysis of EU employment policy

Author(s):  
PETER MUNTIGL



Author(s):  
Amensisa Wakuma Rundassa

The purpose of this study was to investigate the of proverbs in the act of conversations among the Oromo people. Oromo proverbs were then under close scrutiny of context, value, and syntax. In so doing, the qualitative research method that stems from realist ethnography was put to use so as to encapsulate its purpose. Afterwards, the investigation was carried out using a total of (n = 116) from the Arsi Oromo inhabited Kersa and its vicinity in Arsi zone, Ethiopia. Of this amount, thus, (n= 78 (67%), male; n = 38 (33%) female) involved voluntarily. To catch up the research agenda, purposive sampling was used as a means of selecting the participants whereby age was a requirement. In the quest, the research subsequently used three instruments: participant observation, interview, and field notes. The findings therefore hereby show that contexts and values are embedded in proverbs though their linguistic analysis entirely rely on scholarly accomplishment. In these realities are explicated three paradoxical nature of proverbs – brevity, acculturation, and social control. At last, recommendations and implications are given so that the outcomes of the study will aid in the enactments.



Author(s):  
Iman Aib ◽  
Wasima Shehzad ◽  
Sadia Irshad

Promotional strategies have become discursive practices in corporate companies’ mission and vision statements. However, less focus was given to the role of grammar in shaping this text type as part of promotional discourse. Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is arguably the most definite and certain linguistic analysis as a meaning-making resource. Hence, the purpose of this study was to use transitivity grammar theory in SFL to analyse the use of experiential processes in enacting promotional rhetorical moves. Following purposive sampling, mission and vision statements of hundred international companies, which were ranked by current market capitalization, were selected. Using textual analysis, we applied transitivity grammar theory to manually analyse promotional rhetorical moves. The results were quantified and presented in tabulation form. The findings revealed that mental and relational processes are favoured grammatical patterns used by corporate firms to write mission statements that focus on building public image and establish self-concept. The findings of this research can prove helpful for other corporate companies to use similar grammatical patterns to develop mission and vision statements.



1970 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Rezzano Norma

Los cuentos infantiles constituyen un recurso mediante el cual las culturas construyen y transmiten valores, que se expresan típicamente en los comportamientos de los personajes. En sus versiones publicadas bajo el título Revolting Rhymes (2008), el autor galés Roald Dahl desafía los valores transmitidos en algunos cuentos infantiles tradicionales. Este trabajo muestra la forma en que tal cuestionamiento se manifiesta en la construcción de los personajes de Cinderella de Dahl, mediante un análisis lingüístico Sistémico-Funcional (Halliday and Mathiessen 2004). Para ello, se exploran los patrones de transitividad en los que los personajes principales están involucrados y se realiza un análisis comparativo con una versión tradicional de este cuento. El análisis revela interesantes diferencias, especialmente en la construcción de los roles femeninos y masculinos.



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