scholarly journals A Systemic Functional Grammar Analysis of English SMS Advertisements in Egypt

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-279
Author(s):  
Rana El Kholy
Keyword(s):  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
Grammar Analysis

scholarly journals Revealing the Meanings of Prince Harry’s First Speech after Royal Split: Systemic Functional Grammar Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 362-375
Author(s):  
Widi Handayani
Keyword(s):  
Personal Pronoun ◽  
Mental Process ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
The People ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Grammar Analysis ◽  
Media Power

The speech is delivered by Prince Harry. Three areas of SFG are applied to analyze the speech. The result shows that in terms of ideational metafunction, material, and mental processes are 2 highest occurrences in the speech. It happens since the speaker displays all his concrete actions including doing charity and meeting many people of his country. Through mental process, it shows that he involves his senses to communicate the language in his mind. Three types of mental process, namely cognition, affection, and perception are found in the speech indicating his empathy to the people towards the news of the royal split. The interpersonal metafunction shows that he does take sides on the wife and family. Using modality, he employs that the media power force creates huge speculations among the citizens. They accuse his wife for bringing bad impacts for him. By applying high commitment of modality, he reassures people that his wife is not the cause of the split. He also requests the people to love her as much as they love him. The modality shows that the split will not change the commitment he has for serving the country. The polarity displays a clarification that the decision of splitting is taken after long consideration. The personal pronoun ‘I’ shows that the speaker is the subject matter of the speech. The textual metafunction in the speech shows that unmarked theme deploys the idea that it is a declarative speech which functions to give information or clarification. The additional conjunction is used to explore detailed information people must know.

Speaking across the divide: a Functional Grammar analysis of feminist and masculist reproductive rights rhetoric

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-85
Author(s):  
Lia Alexandra Mandaglio
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Advocacy Groups ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
Sex Stereotypes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Grammar Analysis

AbstractThis article applies Systemic Functional Grammar and Critical Discourse Analysis to assess the linguistic choices of feminist and masculist reproductive rights rhetoric. It explains these methodologies and provides a discursive history of the reproductive rights movement. Publications of advocacy groups and the mass media are analysed as data of current rhetorical trends. These interpretations conclude that female-affirmative rhetoric offsets contemporary feminist efforts by marginalising men and excluding considerations of paternity. This article suggests that in solely emphasising women's procreative rights, such feminist rhetoric potentially renders women to the role of primary parental agent, reinforces traditional sex-stereotypes, and incites inter-sex antagonism.

scholarly journals Systemic Functional Grammar Analysis of News Reports of Li Wenliang Incident

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Kang Lihan
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Process ◽  
Personal Pronoun ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The Third ◽  
Verbal Process ◽  
Reading Chinese ◽  
Material Process ◽  
Grammar Analysis

Based on a report on Dr. Li Wenliang in the British mainstream BBC media under the epidemic of Covid-2019, this paper analyzes from three perspectives guided by Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar: transitivity, mood and personal pronoun. It is found that the material process appears most frequently which shows that the news reports mainly reproduce the event process. The second is the verbal process, which shows that news reports are good at making use of multi-channel speech sources to enhance the authority and objectivity of reports. The third is the relational process and psychological process, which reflects the subtlety of news report content and the concealment of attitude. This paper reveals the ideological direction implied in the news reports through seemingly neutral and objective reports, aiming at providing reference for readers in the process of reading Chinese and foreign political discourse.

Trust and betrayal in interorganizational relationships: A systemic functional grammar analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Love Börjeson
Keyword(s):  
Interorganizational Relationships ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Business Partner ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
Grammar Analysis

What is it that we do when we say to our business partner that we trust them? Or when we hint that we would consider a withdrawal from cooperation a betrayal? Relying on a systemic functional grammar analysis, interorganizational relationships (IORs) are in this study shown to be characterized by a recurring dilemma: the involved partners are expected to be transparent and explicit regarding their intentions while at the same time being open to opportunities that the IOR may present. In the struggle to balance between these opposing demands, trust is used by trustees to promise both explicitness and opportunity. Conversely, trustors of IORs pressure the trustee to continue the cooperation by evoking latent accusations of betrayal. The intended result of these rhetorical strategies is to prolong the IOR until it can be properly evaluated. While this prolongation accrues to the systems of IORs and to participating organizations, the costs for the involved individuals can be considerable. The trustor risks feeling betrayed, and the trustee risks being accused of betrayal for reasons that are beyond his or her control.

scholarly journals Life and Death in Andersen's "Grandmother": A Systemic Functional Grammar Analysis

Jurnal KATA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Benedictus Bherman Dwijatmoko
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Relational Processes ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Grammar Analysis

<em>Hans Christian </em><em>Andersen's "Grandmother" is a well-written short story about life and death. The analysis of the story using Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) reveals the meaning and ideology which the writer expresses through the work. In the ideational metafunction, the story uses the material and relational processes the most. The use of the two processes presents the grandmother and her character vividly and clearly. In the interpersonal metafunction, the sentences mostly use </em>grandmother, she, <em>and other objects related to her as the subject. The use shows how meaningful the grandmother to her granddaugher, the narrator, is. Furthermore, the change of the tense also indicates the significant transformation of the grandmother. Finally, in the textual metafunction, though low, the use of marked themes emphasizes the life phases of the grandmother. The analysis of the text using SFG reveals the centrality of life and death in the story. The analysis of the ideational, interpersonal, and textual metafunctions of the text reveals well the meaning and ideology which the story conveys. Death is only a transform of a life to another life.</em>

scholarly journals Analysis of Discourse from Perspective of Systemic Functional Grammar

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1049
Author(s):  
Xiaqing Li
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
The World ◽  
Grammar Analysis ◽  
Four Discourses ◽  
Important Significance

Firstly the author introduces Systemic Functional Grammar in this paper, including the levels of language and their realization relationships, the systems of the three metafunctions and their submetafunctions, as well as the two levels of discourse analysis(DA). Then being based on different aspects of the systemic functional grammar, this paper analyzes the four discourses. Person system, mood and modality system, cohesion system in systemic function grammar are used in analysis of the first discourse “heal the world” which reveals some features of discourse of song. Understanding these characteristics can deepen understanding of the listener to the discourse of English song so as to improve the listener's ability to appreciate the song. When analyzing the other three discourses, the author uses the “context-text-commentary” method. Elaborate applicability of this linguistic theory to DA is the purpose. Finally, concluding that analysis of discourse with the systemic functional grammar analysis is not only a good way, but also it has very important significance.

scholarly journals Rouhani’s and Obama’s Persian New Year messages: A systemic functional grammar perspective

ExELL ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-39
Author(s):  
Amin Karimnia ◽  
Shidak Rahbarian
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar

Abstract This study investigated Nowruz (Persian New Year) messages by Presidents Hassan Rouhani and Barack Obama in March 2016. The study critically analyzed the discourse of these two presidential messages and uncovered the hidden aspects of their ideologies, policies, and background worldviews. In doing so, an integrated version of Halliday’s systemic functional grammar (SFG) and critical discourse analysis (CDA) was used. The analysis of data included various linguistic dimensions (e.g. processes, modality, transitivity) of the messages and their statistics. Although results suggested that Obama intended to build a more intimate situation, both presidents tried to inspire a spirit of action, development and effort in their respective governments. The messages did not reveal considerable thematic differences, except some discoursal religious features expressed in Rouhani’s message.

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