scholarly journals Textual Analysis through Systemic Functional Linguistics

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Randy Y. Briones
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
News Article ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Relational Processes ◽  
Star Wars ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽  
Movie Star ◽  
Similarities And Differences

This paper primarily attempts to provide readers with a means of analyzing texts by using an approach that is considered important by applied linguists, that of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). This work identified the similarities and differences between two texts, a movie review and a news article, that dealt with the same topic, namely, the movie “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”. In identifying the texts’ similarities and differences, the Systemic Functional Linguistic principles of Tenor/Interpersonal Metafunction and Field/Experiential Metafunction were applied. From the interpersonal metafunction analysis, it can be concluded that both texts share similar moods and modalities.  However, a closer inspection would reveal that Text 1 appears to negotiate a positive review of the film through an extensive demonstration of declarative statements that talk about the merits of the film and that of the director’s while Text 2 is more of a reportage of relevant information and interviews from the film.  In terms of the Experiential metafunction, Text 1 delves on material and relational processes that advance the film, the director, and the characters, whereas Text 2 differs as it focuses more on advancing the film while putting little emphasis on the director and the movie characters.

A Textual Analysis of Theme and Rheme Structures in Editorials A Systemic Functional Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Huzaifah A. Hamid
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Functional Perspective ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Way

The present study aims to analyze the way writers use language in order to fulfill a purpose by measuring the similarities and differences in editorials with regard to Theme and Rheme choices. Two letters of opinion of an editorial were used in this study to investigate the thematic choices that might differ, given their different purposes. The results indicated that the writers presented the information directly without emphasizing on any proposition encoded in the clauses. Besides, it was also found that the intervention made by the writers is less obvious, as measured by the low occurrences of Interpersonal Theme. In addition, it can also be concluded that the letter of support is more cohesive than the letter of oppose because of its higher occurrences of Textual Theme. Textual metafunction; ; ; systemic functional linguistics; comparative studies

scholarly journals Exploring the Interpersonal Meaning in two extracts from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah : A Comparative Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-70
Author(s):  
Daniel T. Yokossi
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
World Views ◽  
Full Size ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Way

Abstract This paper examines Mood Patterns in some passages from Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah. More specifically, two extracts from the above mentioned prose fiction have been purposefully selected, described and analyzed from the Systemic Functional Linguistics perspective in order to reveal how the lexicogrammatical features of the interpersonal meaning of the studied extracts underpin the perception of the two authors throughout their novels. The article goes further and highlights the similarities and differences in the interpersonal functions of the extracts under scrutiny in terms of their contents and how the English language has been used therein to construe the above pinpointed authors’ world views of the issues dealt with in their writings. The findings of the study have, among others, revealed that the gap between Achebe’s and Adichie’s writings is not full size and that the former has actually paved the way to the latter.

scholarly journals A Stylistic Investigation of the Act of Murder in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ujjal Jeet ◽  
Keyword(s):  
White Woman ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
White Community ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Theoretical System ◽  
Nature And Nurture

This paper is a functional stylistic study of a selected passage from Doris Lessing’s novel The Grass is Singing. In the novel The Grass is Singing, a white woman in Rhodesia is killed by her black servant but surprisingly the murder instead of bringing a stir spreads a silence in the local white community. Further, the text on an intuitive reading seems to absolve the murderer of the crime which forms the research question of the paper. Thus, close and systematic textual analysis of the text representing the murder scene was conducted and it was found that the linguistic choices of the text does create a semantic universe where the murder and the murdered are allegorical figures representing nature and nurture in a mutual conflict. The methodology for linguistic analysis of the selected text is borrowed from Michael Halliday’s theoretical system Systemic Functional Linguistics. The text is analysed by means of transitivity system which provides the investigative tools to study the representational choices of the text.

scholarly journals Possessive Relational Process Clauses in Scientific Text: Implication on ESP Teaching

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Mulyati Khorina
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Circuit Theory ◽  
Electrical Circuit ◽  
Scientific Texts ◽  
Dominant Type ◽  
Scientific Text ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Relational Processes ◽  
Relational Process

This paper focuses of this paper aimsis possessive relational process clauses which is a type of relational process clauses in which relational processes work. Threepoints concerning possessive relational process clauses are discussed in this paper. First, the relational process type which is dominant possessed by possessive relational process clauses. Second, the lexical verbs which realize the dominant type of relational process. The last, the roles played by possessive relational process clauses. The data for this study were taken from Electrical Circuit Theory and Technology, Fundamentals of Electronics Circuits, Electronics Devices, Flow Version, and A Textbook of Electrical Technology, all of which are used as references by  Electronics Engineering students of PoliteknikNegeri Bandung. To analyse the data, Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) was employed. The results showed that possessive relational process clauses in scientific texts operate solely on attributive relational process. The attributive relational process is realized by lexical verbs have, consist, include, make which represent the possessive relational process clauses as Classification, Composition and Feature.

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 PROCESSES IN REPORT TEXT: AN ANALYSIS OF SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTIC ON TRANSITIVITY

Widya Accarya ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
Gede Sutrisna
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Qualitative Design ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽  
Report Text ◽  
Clear Information ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui proses transitivitas yang paling dominan digunakan dalam teks report dan kaitannya dengan prinsip dasar teks report. Desain yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif dengan penerapan teori Linguistik Sistemik Fungsional pada transitivitas. Data dalam penelitian ini merupakan 29 klausa yang diperoleh dari teks report yang digunakan dalam Ujian Nasional kelas sembilan SMP. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa keenam jenis proses transitivitas digunakan dalam teks report. Namun, proses yang paling banyak digunakan adalah material (44%) dan relasional (31%). Hal ini menandakan kedua proses tersebut berperan penting dalam memberikan informasi dan gambaran yang jelas sehingga para pembaca mampu memahami obyek yang dijelaskan dalam teks report. Kata Kunci: teks report, transitivitas, linguistik sistemik fungsional   Abstract This research aimed at investigating the most dominant of transitivity process used in report text and how it relates with the nature of report text. It employed descriptive qualitative design and applied Systemic Functional Linguistics on Transitivity. The data were 29 clauses taken from report texts used in ninth grade’s National Exam. The result of this research revealed that six types of transitivity processes found in the report texts. Yet, material (44%) and relational (31%) were found to dominate the rest of the processes. This implied that those two processes serve important roles in providing clear information and description for the readers to understand the object being described in report text. Keywords: report text, transitivity, systemic functional linguistics

scholarly journals Metafunctions in the Thirukkural: A Systemic Functional Linguistics Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 01-06
Author(s):  
Rubavathanan Markandan
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Functional Method ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Tamil Literature ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Literary Theories ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽  
History Of ◽  
Functional Features

‘Thirukkural’ written by Thiruvalluvar, is the most well-known and highly regarded work in the history of Tamil literature. Also, it is well known for its particular structure and wording. It is a distinctive and highly appealing work. Thirukkural has been studied approaching different literary theories. This paper tries to analyse Thirukkural based on the functional method of M. A. K. Halliday, his Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). Here, one chapter – Education - of 133 chapters of the Thirukkural is analyzed using Systemic Functional Linguistic framework to achieve functional groupings of the writer’s linguistic choices in order to express the meanings and find out how functional features contribute to making the poem potentially. The linguistic data collected from the Thirukkural were analyzed by using the functional analysis method. Consequently, how interpersonal relationships are created within texts, how information is organized in texts and how the ideological positions of writer are implanted in texts were shown and interpreted.

scholarly journals “BÁNH TRÔI NƯỚC” AND THREE ENGLISH VERSIONS OF TRANSLATION: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL COMPARISON

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoang Van Van
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Lexical Choice ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
John Balaban

This paper is concerned with a comparison of the three English versions of translation: “The Floating Cake” translated by John Balaban, “The Cake That Drifts In Water” translated by Huỳnh Sanh Thông and “Floating Sweet Dumpling” translated by Marilyn Chin with the source poem “Bánh trôi nước” by the Vietnamese renowned poetess Hồ Xuân Hương. The theoretical framework employed for analysis and comparison of the texts is systemic functional linguistics. The results show that there are both similarities and differences between the translated versions and the source poem, and between the translated versions in terms of ideational, interpersonal and textual meanings. The results also indicate that there are more differences in lexical choice (the choice of words and groups/phrases) than in syntactic choice (the choice of transitivity, mood, and thematic patterns) between the three translated versions and the original poem, and between the three translated versions.

scholarly journals The Circumstantial Relational Process Clauses in Scientific Texts in the Framework of SFL

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-81
Author(s):  
Mulyati Khorina
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Function Structure ◽  
Scientific Texts ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Relational Processes ◽  
Relational Process

This paper will present the results of the study of circumstantial relational process clauses in scientific texts, especially in mechanical engineering ones.  This study is aimed to identify the relational process occurring in Circumstantial relational process clauses and analyze the lexical verbs realizing the relational processes. To conduct the study, three mechanical engineering textbooks used as references by Mechanical Engineering Students of Politeknik Negeri Bandung (Polban) were used as the source for collecting the data. The method used in this study was qualitative one and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) framework was applied to analyze the data. The results showed attributive relational process occur more frequently than identifying one. The attributive relational process was realized by various lexical verbs. The account of this will be presented in the rest of the his paper. Key words: Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), circumstantial clauses, function, structure, identifying process, attributive process

For family, for friends, for (true) love

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-128
Author(s):  
Vincent Pak ◽  
Mie Hiramoto
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Persuasive Discourse ◽  
True Love ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Promotional Materials ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
To Come

Abstract We examine promotional materials produced by two organisations in Singapore, TrueLove.Is and Pink Dot, to investigate how these two groups employ discourses of love to support their opposing views regarding the reconcilability of Christianity and same-sex desire. TrueLove.Is is a Christian ministry that encourages LGB Christian Singaporeans to “come out, come home”, while Pink Dot is Singapore’s largest and foremost LGBTQ movement. We identify similarities and differences in their persuasive discourse strategies regarding ideas of love as discussed by lesbian Christian pastors. Although they position the idea of love similarly, their agendas are completely polarised. TrueLove.Is takes the position that non-heteronormative activity is ungodly and sinful, while Pink Dot offers a reconciliation between Christianity and same-sex desire. We employ Peterson’s (2016) approach to homophobic discourse analysis based on Systemic Functional Linguistics and a comparative discourse analysis to investigate the ideologies that inform the two organisations’ materials about the treatment of LGBTQ Singaporeans.

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