The Roles of Attitude in The Storyline of Beauty and The Beast (2017) Movie (Systemic Functional Linguistics Approach)

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alhinsa Oktaviani Arjanti
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Appraisal Theory ◽  
Context Analysis ◽  
Beauty And The Beast ◽  
Physical Description ◽  
Functional Linguistics

<p>This research is about analyzing the attitude used by the script writer in Beauty and The Beast (2017) movie. It is aimed to find the roles of attitude in giving the characterizations in the movie and the roles of attitude in building the narrative text in the movie using systemic functional linguistics approach.</p><p>This research is a descriptive qualitative research, implementing descriptive comparative method with discourse analysis. The source of the data is the utterances from the characters. Primary data were also collected applied genre relation, characterization theory and systemic functional linguistics, especially appraisal theory. In analyzing the data applied Miles &amp; Hubberman’ s (1992) interactive model with Spradley’s (1980) ethnographic steps which include domain, taxonomy, componential, and cultural context analysis.</p><span>The results of this research show the findings: (1) attitude takes roles in giving direct and indirect characterizations in the form of physical description, action, emotional and physical reaction, thought, speech, (2) In building the narrative text, affect takes roles to express the characters’ emotional feeling, judgement is used to describe and evaluate the characters’ behavior, and appreciation is used to describe the character’s physical appearance, the setting of place of the story and to give an abstract valuation. </span>

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.

Language patterns and ATTITUDE

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Bednarek
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Appraisal Theory ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Corpus Linguistic ◽  
Linguistic Evidence ◽  
Linguistic Patterns ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Evaluative Meaning ◽  
Preliminary Classification

Interpersonal or evaluative meaning has been described in systemic functional linguistics with the help of appraisal theory (Martin & White 2005), which distinguishes between different types of evaluation. One sub-system of APPRAISAL is ATTITUDE, which is further divided into APPRECIATION, JUDGEMENT and AFFECT. This paper uses corpus-linguistic evidence to investigate how far linguistic patterns support this classification, and whether they can be used as a ‘diagnostic’ for distinguishing types of ATTITUDE (as has been proposed in appraisal theory). It argues that two different aspects of APPRAISAL need to be considered: the kinds of attitudinal lexis (in terms of evaluative standards which are inscribed in this lexis) and the kinds of attitudinal targets or types of attitudinal assessment, and that this distinction has not been sufficiently considered in appraisal theory so far. A preliminary classification of attitudinal lexis is also suggested, and a new sub-category of ATTITUDE proposed (COVERT AFFECT).

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

Clause complexing and characterisation: Joyce’s ‘Two Gallants’ Revisited

2020 ◽  
pp. 096394702095220
Author(s):  
He Huang
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Literary Meaning ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Clause Complex

The application of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics to analyse literary texts has been a prevalent approach in the field of stylistics. However, previous studies have mainly focused on the three metafunctions, that is the experiential, the interpersonal and the textual metafunctions, on the level of the clause, ignoring the logical metafunction on the level of the clause complex. Therefore, the present study seeks to examine the composition of clause complexes and explicate how clause complexing is related to the reader’s interpretation of literary meaning, especially that of characterisation. To achieve this, a comparative method is adopted to explain in what sense the author’s actual choices of clause complexes differ from alternatives that could have been chosen and also in what sense the choices shape into a coherent pattern throughout the text. My case study is James Joyce’s short story ‘Two Gallants’, a text that has already been successfully investigated from the Hallidayan approach. My main findings suggest that the deceptively simple style of clause complexing in Joyce’s text is in fact loaded with semantic density and incongruity that serve the purpose of characterisation. The study aims to show that we would miss many subtle details in the text in terms of characterisation if we skip the construction of clause complexes. Accordingly, the reading of nuances between the clauses might offer us a new perspective not just to interpret Joyce’s short story and but also to better understand his writing style.

scholarly journals Functional Analysis of Narrative Texts in Elementary School Textbook “Fly with English”

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-28
Author(s):  
Ambar Jati ◽  
Manu Somphithak
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
School Textbook ◽  
Pedagogical Implication ◽  
Material Process

Background: This study is an analysis of narrative texts in Elementary School textbook “Fly with English” based on lexico-grammar and context in the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). This study is also expected to give the pedagogical implication based on the context of teaching and learning process Method: This research uses descriptive qualitative type of study in investigating the problem. In the technique of collecting data, the writer uses observation and documentation. The writer finds 95 clauses in narrative text. In analyzing the data, the writer uses lexico-grammar of SFL framework to answer the first problem. Moreover, the writer refers to context of SFL framework to answer the second problem, and the writer also uses context of teaching and learning to answer the third problem. Result: Based on the result, there are six types of processes in the narrative text, those are: (1) material process (40%), (2) mental process (23,1%), (3) relational process (20%), (4) verbal and behavioral process (7,4%), and (5) existential process (2,1%). The writer also finds fifteen types of the participants, namely actor, goal, senser, phenomenon, sayer, verbiage, carrier, attribute, token, value, receiver, client, recipient, behaver, and existent. Moreover, the writer finds  six types of circumstances, that are, location, matter, manner, accompaniment, cause, and extent. Implication: The pedagogical implication of studying Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) in narrative text is to give the insight of the teacher about SFL genre pedagogy in teaching and learning process. In functional grammar, teacher can teach the language features in different ways, such as by introducing the terms of processes, participants, and circumstances that contain in the narrative text clauses.  

scholarly journals Thematic characteristics of the orientation part of the English version of Hikayat Deli text

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 818-832
Author(s):  
Nurlela Nurlela ◽  
Rudy Sofyan ◽  
Rohani Ganie
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
English Version ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Good Organization

As the first part of a narrative text, orientation should be able to attract the readers’ attention; therefore, it must be well organized. From the Systemic Functional Linguistics point of view, a well-organized text can be confirmed through its textual metafunction realized in theme and rheme. In addition to confirming a good organization of the clauses, theme-rheme interactions would make the text interesting. This paper aims at describing the thematic characteristics of the orientation of the English version of Hikayat Deli text (the translated text of Hikayat Deli). This study employed the data derived from the orientation part of the English version of Hikayat Deli text which was analyzed using content analysis. The results of data analysis showed that: (1) unmarked themes dominated the use of theme in the orientation part of the English version of Hikayat Deli text, (2) the story characters (participants) were used most frequently as the clause themes, and (3) conjunctions and conjunctives (textual themes) were the elements of multiple themes most frequently used in the orientation part of the English version of Hikayat Deli text. It is concluded that the choice of theme elements helps in constructing a well-organized orientation and in facilitating the easy understanding to readers of what the rest of the text is about.

scholarly journals An Interpersonal and Appraisal Analysis of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-77
Author(s):  
Dr. Jaswinder Kaur Aulakh
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Appraisal Theory ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Appraisal Analysis ◽  
A Doll's House

This paper attempts to analyze Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House through linguistic perspective where conversational exchanges of the characters are laden with power and dominance. In most of the earlier studies done on A Doll’s House, feminism has been discussed along with the basic socio-economic differences between males and females. The analysis of differences between the language of male and female characters, however, were scanty. But in this paper, an attempt has been made to study differences between the language of male and female characters of the play with the help of theoretical framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics as proposed by M.A.K. Halliday and Appraisal theory as described by Martin.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Grammatical Metaphor and Translation from Chinese to English: An Empirical Study Based on a Personal Experience Narrative Text

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Jiangping Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Proficiency Levels ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Grammatical Metaphor ◽  
The Relationship

<p>Grammatical metaphor is one of the important theories in Systemic-Functional Linguistics. Through an empirical study, this paper analyzes the correlation between grammatical metaphor and its sub-categories and the translating quality of personal experience narrative texts from Chinese to English, and the findings show that grammatical metaphor, especially ideational metaphor, and translating quality are significantly positively correlated. Through analyzing the differences of grammatical metaphor and its sub-categories used by learners of English from different proficiency levels, and the findings show that grammatical metaphor and its sub-categories are significantly different except textual metaphor.</p>

scholarly journals On Linguistic Philosophy of Mikhail Bakhtin and Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hang Zou
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Appraisal Theory ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽  
Speech Genre ◽  
Linguistic Philosophy

It is noteworthy that florid descriptions of interaction between linguistics and the philosophy of language are regularly inspired. In this paper, parallels have been drawn between Bakhtin’s philosophical perspectives and Hallidayan theoretical claims of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). Through the analysis of Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism, heteroglossia, chronotope and metalinguistics, I argue that Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistic theory is compatible with Bakhtin’s philosophical perspectives to a great extent in terms of the close relations between speech genre and register, heteroglossia and appraisal theory as well as metalinguistics and metafunctions. It is safe to say that as a precursor, Bakhtin has a profound influence on socio-semioticians like Halliday who has expounded in linguistics.

scholarly journals AN APPRAISAL ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVE TEXT FROM THE 11TH GRADE ENGLISH TEXTBOOK

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iroh Magfiroh ◽  
Rama Dwika Herdiawan ◽  
Agus Rofi'i
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Appraisal Theory ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
School Students ◽  
Negative Judgment ◽  
English Textbooks ◽  
11Th Grade ◽  
Senior High School Students

This present study explain the appraisal devices especially the attitude types. Appraisal theory is the development of Systemic Functional Linguistics theory in the realm of interpersonal meaning initiated by Martin and White. This study used qualitative research with discourse analysis (DA) techniques. The object of analysis in this study is narrative text of the English textbooks for senior high school students published by the Ministry of Education and Culture. This study employed a document analysis as a technique for collecting data. The findings showed that there were 65 systems of attitude which consist of 19 positive affect, 25 negative affect, 8 positive judgment, 8 negative judgment, 1 positive appreciation, and 4 negative appreciation.

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