The Aspects and Issues of Text Analysis Using Systematic-Functional Linguistics(SFL)

2021 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 1-42
Author(s):  
Heeseong Shin
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Functional Linguistics

scholarly journals Tourism Discourse Revisited: An Analysis of Evaluative Strategies in Tourist Brochures from a Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 211
Author(s):  
Alireza Jalilifar ◽  
Yasamin Moradi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Statistical Variations ◽  
Verbal Content

Today, studying tourism discourse has become widespread among scholars in the field of text analysis. However, few, if any, studies which have addressed the language of tourism have examined the verbal content of travel brochures from the point of view of the appraisal model. The major questions addressed in this study pertain to Graduation strategies as part of appraisal strategies in the discourse of tourism as well as the lexico-grammatical resources for the coding of these strategies in texts. The dataset comprised 50 e-brochures released by tour operators across the United States within the period 2012 to 2013. First, the data were examined quantitatively to identify the statistical variations in utilizing Graduation strategies in tourist brochures. The preferences for lexico-grammatical resources for the construal of these strategies were also illustrated in light of a qualitative analysis. The results of the study revealed that the discourse of travel brochures is loaded with Graduation strategies. The subsystems within the system of Graduation were shown to serve as strong tools in promoting various aspects of tourist destinations such as the number and distribution of tourist sites over an area.

Applying systemic functional linguistics in healthcare contexts

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (4-5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Section 8 ◽  
Systemic Analysis ◽  
Medical Consultations ◽  
Healthcare Communication ◽  
Situation Types

AbstractThis paper is concerned with research on healthcare communication that draws on Halliday's systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Section 1 introduces Halliday's notion of appliable linguistics, with SFL as a particular manifestation. Section 2 deals with instances of healthcare communication in the form of medical consultations, and shows how they can be illuminated through SF text analysis. Section 3 relates medical consultations to institutions of healthcare along two dimensions, stratification and instantiation; and it suggests that institutions can be analyzed as aggregates of situation types. Section 4 considers the field of activity within healthcare contexts, suggesting how texts in situation types characterized by different fields complement one another. Section 5 adds tenor considerations in the form of the institutional healthcare roles across fields. Section 6 explores patient journeys through hospitals as sequences of situation types. Section 7 asks how risks and failures inherent in patient journeys can be interpreted, and then analyzed and addressed, in terms of the orders of systems in a hospital. Section 8 continues this systemic analysis, applying them to patients, and Section 9 extends the analysis to healthcare systems, as semo-technical systems. Section 10 shows how relationship-centered healthcare can be interpreted in terms of SFL.

scholarly journals Language Education and Systemic Functional Linguistics

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sthephanny Moncada Linares ◽  
Zhi-Ying Xin
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Literacy Intervention ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Shed Light

The purpose of the present paper is to offer a state-of-the-art review on the topic of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and its theoretical and practical implications on the field of language education, being the former widely recognized due to its potentiality to encourage both reflection and action for the participants involved. Recent empirical studies were located and thoroughly reviewed, which shed light on the three most researched areas including text analysis and literacy intervention, classroom discourse, and the language teaching and learning processes. As a final remark and taking into account the literature analysis, some prospective studies are briefly proposed.  

scholarly journals The Contributions of Systemic Functional Linguistics to Literary Text Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Arsen Nahum Pasaribu ◽  
Erika Sinambela ◽  
Sondang Manik
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Functional Linguistics

Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) refers to some kind of text analysis, including an analysis of literary language. Some research has verified the study of the literary text using this linguistic apparatus; however the use of SFL in literary text analysis is relatively rare. Therefore, this study investigated the contributions of SFL to literary text analysis. The data of the study were 20 scientific articles focusing on literary text analysis using SFL. The analysis used content analysis to expose the segments of the story analyzed and the components of SFL to analyze them. The findings showed that the method of analysis using SFL on the literary text has brought new perspectives to the researchers, and provided some possible future studies in literary works. Moreover, the study of literary texts is regarded not merely as interpretative practices but as explanatory categories for each segment of a literary text.

scholarly journals Systemic functional linguistics and audiovisual translation studies: a conceptual basis for the study of the language of subtitles

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (spe) ◽  
pp. 495-513
Author(s):  
Elaine Espindola
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Audiovisual Translation ◽  
Made In

The present article contemplates two complementary dimensions, namely: (i) Audiovisual Translation Studies; and (ii) Linguistic studies giving direct attention to the language of subtitling to put forward a theoretical basis for studies focusing on The Language of Subtitles. Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) provides theoretical tools to allow for a language-based understanding of the meaning making resources of subtitling on the basis of text analysis. It is argued that this complementarity allows for fruitful comparison and contrast of texts in a translational relationship in that it provides categories for describing similarities and differences emerging from investigations of the choices made in spoken texts translated into written language in subtitles. Investigations carried out along these lines may lead to insights in terms of the construals existent in source and target texts in order to understand the choices made in the realization of the texts.

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 Systemic Functional Linguistics as a Basic Theory in Translating English Wordplays

Humaniora ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 372
Author(s):  
Agnes Herawati
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Basic Theory ◽  
English Text ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
The One ◽  
Linguistic Structures

Wordplay are exploited in order to bring a communicatively significant confrontation of two or more linguistic structures. Translating wordplays in English text into Indonesian is difficult; on the one hand, translator has to recognize the use of wordplays in rendering a defined effect and the characteristics of translated text. This paper is designed to explore the importance of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) related to translating English wordplay into Indonesian, particularly the strategies of dealing with those wordplays and its application in solving problems effectively.SFL is most appropriately applicable to text analysis especially wordplay analysis because it is constructed for the sake of text analysis.  

Attribution in high-and low-graded persuasive essays by tertiary students

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sook Hee Lee
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Academic Literacy ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Esl Students ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Persuasive Essays ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Literacy Perspectives ◽  
Engagement System

This paper explores cross-cultural and grade-based differences in the use of intertextual resources in persuasive essays written by tertiary students. Expressions of explicit intertextuality are analysed using the model of Attribution, an element of the engagement system formulated within the interpersonal metafunction of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The text analysis, supported by interview results, reveals that while there are some differences in the overall use of Attribution between native English speaking and ESL students, the most significant grade-based differences were found in expressions of Attribution and in the Attribution patterns adopted in the presentation of intersubjective claims supported by evidence. The differences identified are interpreted in terms of dialogic literacy perspectives. Pedagogical implications are discussed in terms of the contribution of the differences to the success of the essays, and the need to support academic literacy.

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