scholarly journals Língua inglesa como liíngua adicional: cultura e contextos (English as additional language: culture and context)

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Carine Haupt ◽  
Miliane Moreira Cardoso Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
English Language ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Learning Culture ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Intercultural Skills ◽  
The Social

Neste artigo, discutimos as implicações do aprendizado da cultura no ensino da Língua Inglesa como Língua Adicional. Assim, trazemos conceitos referentes ao termo cultura para defender a ideia de que desenvolver uma língua adicional não significa apenas adquirir vocabulário e gramática. É necessário também desenvolver competências interculturais, para entender as normas que regulam a interação social da língua estudada. Não obstante, este artigo traz também os conceitos da estratificação da Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional (LSF), que discutem a noção de contextos. Essa noção é fundamental, pois as escolhas linguísticas realizadas por cada usuário da língua são associadas a esses contextos.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: LSF. Cultura. Contextos. Língua Adicional. Língua Inglesa. ABSTRACTIn this article, we discuss the implications of learning culture in the teaching of English as an Additional Language. Thus, we bring concepts related to the culture term in order to defend the idea that developing an additional language does not just mean acquiring vocabulary and grammar. It is also necessary to develop intercultural skills to understand the rules that govern the social interaction of the language under investigation. Nevertheless, this article also brings the concepts of stratification of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), which discusses the notion of contexts. This notion is fundamental because linguistic choices, made by each user of the language, are associated with these contexts.KEYWORDS: SFL. Culture. Context. Additional Language. English Language.

scholarly journals Adichie’s Thematic Construction of a Post-Colonial Nigerian Nation-State in Two Excerpts from Her Purple Hibiscus: An Experiential Meaning Scrutiny

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
Daniel T. Yokossi ◽  
Léonard A. Koussouhon
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
World View ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Verbal Processes ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Experiential Meaning

Abstract This article digs into Adichie’s world view of the post-colonial Nigeria via her use of the English language in two extracts culled from her Purple Hibiscus. To go into details, the study examines how Adichie makes use of particular types of transitivity patterns to weave into her text her thematic construction of Nigeria after independence. To this end, the Experiential Meaning has been used as a theoretical lens given that the exploration of the transitivity properties in/of a text can provide a full insight into how the writer encodes his/her experience of the world therein as advocated by Systemic Functional Linguistics scholars like Halliday (1971/1976), and his followers Hassan (1985/1989), Eggins (2004), and Matthiessen (2004/2006). As a matter of fact, the study offers a linguistic analysis of the selected extracts, a summary of the findings, and the ensuing interpretation. Actually, the interpretation of the findings has revealed that Adichie has encoded tremendous meanings through her outstanding use of such process types as material, mental and verbal processes. The distribution of these key processes in the analyzed extracts per participant has also highlighted both some of the author's key characters and to what extent these latter ones embody her perceptions of the social, religious and political issues that she artistically tries to castigate in her novel under examination. The study ultimately opens up to further explorations embracing such other fields of the Systemic Functional Linguistics as the interpersonal and textual meanings.

A Critical Review of Consciousness-Raising Approaches: Applied Linguistics vs. Systemic Functional Linguistics

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Aiyoub Jodairi Pineh
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Recent Developments

<p class="2"><span lang="EN-AU">This paper is a critical review of the notion of consciousness-raising approach in the mainstream Applied Linguistics (AL) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). It reviews the development of this approach from traditional grammarian perspectives to the recent developments in AL, and compares and contrasts this approach in AL with the notion of grammatical metaphor (GM) in SFL as a compatible resource for consciousness-raising. The paper concludes that SFL introduces new and developmental resources of consciousness at different times and spaces, which is subject to further linguistic investigations. It has also implications for the English language teaching and learning in EFL contexts. </span></p>

scholarly journals Re-conceptualizing Techno-Linguistics: Using Technology for English Language Teaching?

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (17) ◽  
pp. 162
Author(s):  
Xiaodong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Research Area ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Potential Value ◽  
And Linguistics

This short paper discusses the potential value of integrating linguistics theories with technological devices in English language teaching (ELT). In particular, the paper presents how systemic functional linguistics could be used to complement technology-based ELT. The paper ends with an innovative proposal of techno-linguistics (a term derived from the words technology and linguistics) as a research area to better benefit language learners in this digitalized world.

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 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

scholarly journals SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS OF POLITICAL ARTICLES IN EASTERN AND WESTERN ONLINE NEWS

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 24-31
Author(s):  
Ali Hussein Abdulameer ◽  
Siti Noor Fazelah Mohd Noor ◽  
Wisam Khalis Nasser
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Online News ◽  
Functional Study ◽  
The Political ◽  
Online Newspapers ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Verbal Processes

Purpose of study: Political discourse causes a large attendance, due to their influence on economic, cultural and societal. The current study investigates 80 political articles in Eastern and Western online news by applied transitivity analysis under the systemic functional study by (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2014). Methodology: The study employs qualitative analysis the systemic functional linguistics with Critical discourse analysis to find out the answers for the next two questions: First, How the transitivity process recognizes the experiential meaning in the social actor's discourse in the Western and Eastern online news? Second, what are the differences or similarities in the social actor's discourse in Eastern and Western online news? The documentation method uses to collect data from the two online newspapers, from Eastern (Al JAZEERA) and from Western news (THE GUARDIAN) from 6th December 2017 to 13th May 2018. Main Findings: The main findings show that verbal processes, is most predominant in social actors discourse in Eastern especially Turkish’s president mostly used the processes and in Western France president mostly used transitivity processes in online news and followed by relational, and mental. Implications/Applications: On the basis of the study, can be better to understand the thinking manner and cultural features and the attitudes and judgments of the political in East and West. Originality/Novelty of Study: Many Researchers like Naz, Alvi, and Baseer (2012), Farhat (2016) and Xiaowan (2018) utilized transitivity processes to study political discourse. The researcher can’t find any study employs Transitivity processes to investigate the political articles in Eastern and Western online news consider Trump’s decision after declared Jerusalem as Israel capital on 6th December 2017.  

Interpersonal functions of interjections

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Jing
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
A Minor

Abstract Motivated by the frequent omission of interjections from film subtitles, this study investigates the interpersonal functions of interjections, and seeks to disentangle their meaning relations. Based on the analysis of interjections from six English language films under the theoretical framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), the study primarily classifies the functions of interjections in terms of whether the interjections independently realize moves in exchange. The function of the interjection which realizes a move on its own is described at the semantic stratum in terms of a minor speech function, and the function of the interjection which realizes a move together with a clause is described at the lexicogrammatical stratum in terms of an optional clausal function referred to as a ‘latched function’. The study highlights the distinction between latched functions and their agnate minor speech functions, and offers more delicate accounts of the functions of interjections. It proposes a system network of the minor speech functions, which can facilitate a more systematic analysis of the functions realized by interjections. This study contributes to the SFL description of English interjections, and can offer methodological insights into further research on the functionality of interjections.

scholarly journals Reflections on the Grammatical Category of before, after and since Introducing Non-finite -ing Clauses: A Corpus Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Qingshun He
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Grammatical Category ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Grammatical Metaphor ◽  
Unidirectional Transfer

<p>English language learners may be confused in identifying the grammatical category of such conjunctive expressions as <em>before, after </em>and<em> since</em> introducing non-finite <em>-ing</em> clauses. In this article, we will conduct a corpus-based investigation of hypotactic conjunctions and conjunctive prepositions following the principle of unidirectional transfer in grammatical metaphor proposed by He and Yang (2014) within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The research concludes that hypotactic conjunctions tend to transfer to zero conjunctions and <em>before, after </em>and<em> since</em> introducing non-finite <em>-ing</em> clauses should be included into the grammatical category of conjunctive prepositions.</p>

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.

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