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.

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.  

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.

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.

Wantok and Lain ‐ a look at two Melanesian cultural concepts in two Tok Pisin texts

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
Paweł Kornacki
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
World View ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anthropological Literature ◽  
Bride Price ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Group Family

Abstract This article looks at salient interpersonal uses and meanings of two prominent Tok Pisin social relations nouns ‐ wantok ('friend', 'same language speaker') and lain ('group', 'family', 'clan') ‐ which it is proposed exemplify key cultural Melanesian concepts in some anthropological literature of the area. Whereas certain aspects of language use in Tok Pisin were identified as potentially divisive and socially harmful, some scholars endeavoured to identify a group of concepts indicative of culturally specific Melanesian values. For example, the words wantok and lain were claimed to jointly represent 'the value of the clan' across Melanesian societies, while embodying and supporting a distinct world-view of the Melanesian peoples. This article studies two Tok Pisin texts which focus on the cultural significance of concepts of wantok and lain in their rural/traditional environment. While the first text offers a native speaker's insight into the social significance of the cultural expression wantok sistem ('system favouring friends'), the other one details the roles of lain in the passage of a bride-price ceremony. Given that both texts presuppose the cultural background of rural Tok Pisin, a brief look at some characteristic usage of the two words in electronic media suggests that certain aspects of traditional uses and meanings of these words may be extended and employed to conceptualize new social and political phenomena.

The Bravest of the Brave

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Confederate Army ◽  
Senior Officer ◽  
The Social ◽  
Army Of Northern Virginia ◽  
Camp Life ◽  
The Military ◽  
Insight Into

Born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, in 1837, Stephen Dodson Ramseur rose meteorically through the military ranks. Graduating from West Point in 1860, he joined the Confederate army as a captain, and, by the time of his death near the end of the war at the Battle of Cedar Creek, had attained the rank of major general in the Army of Northern Virginia. Ramseur excelled in every assignment and was involved as a senior officer in many of the war's most important conflicts east of the Appalachians. His letters—over 180 of which are collected and transcribed here—provide his incisive observations on these military events, and, at the same time, offer a rare insight into the personal opinions of a high-ranking Civil War officer. Correspondence by Civil War figures is often strictly professional. But in Ramseur's personal letters to his wife, Nellie, and best friend, David Schenk, this book candidly expresses beliefs about the social, military, and political issues of the day. It also shares vivid accounts of battle and daily camp life, providing colorful details on soldiering during the war.

scholarly journals The Use Of Experiential Meanings in the Drink Labels

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dias Andris Susanto
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Dominant Process ◽  
Material Process ◽  
Experiential Meaning

This research is aimed at describing the English sentences used on the experiential meaning in the drink labels. Butt, et al. (1996:44) introducing us to the notion that language simultaneously performs three functions (experiential, interpersonal and textual) and one of the functions which is focused on the process is that experiential meanings. The objectives of this research are to investigate clauses and their constituents realized in the English sentences on the drink labels and to map out the experiential meanings realized in the clauses in the drink labels. The writer used qualitative descriptive analysis to find out the characteristics of English sentences used in the drink labels. The object of the study is the sentences used in the drink labels. The unit analysis is a clause used in the drink labels. The data were collected by the use of documents. To analyze the data, Method of data analysis, the writer took some steps; there are identification of 19 products of the drink labels, identification of the labels, identification of the sentences used in the drink labels, and identification of the experiential meaning. The result shows that, the 19 drink labels have 79 clauses and each clause has different constituents there are two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten constituents. The dominant constituent is nine constituents. Discussion on Experiential meaning, there are participant, process, and circumstance. The dominant process is material process. It has 50 clauses. Then the relational process is lees dominant, it has 29 clauses. In addition, the last process is projecting. It has no clauses. It is suggested that labels are good media for teaching English, especially systemic functional linguistics. By understanding the meaning of the labels, students and or readers are able to get the knowledge about the meanings of the clauses in the drink labels. They also can get the benefit of consuming the drinks. The other researchers would be able to continue analyzing for the next steps using different point of views.

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 C. Wright Mills’ The Sociological Imagination and the Construction of Talcott Parsons as a Conservative Grand Theorist

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmut Staubmann
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Sociological Imagination ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Talcott Parsons ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Social ◽  
Adequate Evaluation ◽  
To Come

Abstract C. Wright Mills was one of the most important critics of Talcott Parsons who succeeded in establishing the image of Parsons as a conservative “grand theorist” out of touch with the real world and its real problems, as passed on in sociological textbooks. In this essay, it is argued that Mills’ “translation of Parsons into English” is a one-sided interpretation based on his own theoretical premises, which he called the sociological imagination. The way Mills conceptualized sociological imagination leans towards an ideological world-view with political ambitions but lacks the necessary theoretical differentiation for an adequate evaluation of Parsons’ general theory of action and the conceptualization of the social system in particular. Given Mills’ premises, it appeared to him as if Parsons could not deal with social conflict, social change, domination and power relationships, which laid the foundations of a narrative quite distinct from the “real” Parsons. The conceptual deficiencies of Mills’ sociological imagination lead into theoretical antinomies and the practical inability to resolve political issues outside of forceful intervention as suggested in the theoretical tradition of Thomas Hobbes. Independent of a political positioning, Parsons’ sophistications in his understanding of power as one of several generalized symbolic media of interaction beyond the Hobbesian utilitarian model are necessary to come to terms with the increased complexity of modern society, both in theoretical and in political terms.

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