scholarly journals Text organization of formal or oral and written discourse: an analysis based on the work of Borges

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-222
Author(s):  
Ann Montemayor-Borsinger
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Oral Discourse ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
Grammatical Metaphor ◽  
Abstract Entities ◽  
Text Organization ◽  
Point Of Departure

This study examines the text organization of formal oral and written discourse using Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), where Theme is considered the point of departure of the message (Halliday 1994, Halliday y Matthiessen 2004). In SFL the succession of Themes as a text unfolds constitutes its ‘method of development’ (Fries 1983/1995), which is the ‘scaffolding’ (Stainton 1993) needed for introducing rhematic contributions. Recent work in SFL has suggested that oral English tends towards more ‘contentlight’ and written English towards more ‘contentful’ methods of development (Berry forthcoming a & b). A detailed comparative analysis of the different choices in Theme and grammatical metaphor in thematic position is developed for Spanish, based on conferences by Borges and research articles on his work. Results support the hypothesis that oral discourse, even if it is formal, uses contentlight Themes with interpersonal metaphors whose function is to manifest authorial presence. In contrast written discourse uses contentful Themes with experiential metaphors whose function is to construct highly nominalized methods of development that reduce authorial presence by focusing on abstract entities.

A Comparative Analysis of the Poetics of Anger in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger and Femi Osofisan’s The Chattering and the Song

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Human Emotion ◽  
Fundamental Component ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Desire To Change

Anger is a basic human emotion that has a force for constructive or destructive ends. Its expression in any circumstance can be a trigger for a desire to change a prevailing situation. In all cases, anger is a fundamental component of art. This study examines the use of anger in Osborne’s Look Back in Anger and Osofisan’s The Chattering and the Song. Osborne and Osofisan are two writers who are very anxious to change their societies through their art. In spite of differences in their origin (Osborne was a Briton while Osofisan is a Nigerian), they wrote at a time of certain social and political upheavals in their countries. They also share similar concerns and attitudes towards art. My focus in this paper is on the early plays of Osborne and Osofisan where anger is strongest and where their artistic triumph is most poignant. Working within the formalist approach, the paper reveals that in Osborne and Osofisan, extreme anger is both material and style and is what marks their art out. The reification by the intellect provides a potent instrument for investigating society. Anger becomes the point of departure for their art, it is not mere hysterics but a cerebral one and it is the motivating force for their writings.

Valid Signature Detection and Verification for Security of Individual Person

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Varun Sharma ◽  
Narpat Singh
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Early Research ◽  
Individual Person ◽  
Signature Detection ◽  
Online Signature ◽  
The Right ◽  
Handwritten Signature

In the recent research work, the handwritten signature is a suitable field to detection of valid signature from different environment such online signature and offline signature. In early research work, a lot of unauthorized person put the signature and theft the data in illegal manner from organization or industries. So we have to need identify, the right person on the basis of various parameters that can be detected. In this paper, we have proposed two methods namely LDA and Neural Network for the offline signature from the scan signature image. For efficient research, we have focused the comparative analysis in terms of FRR, SSIM, MSE, and PSNR. These parameters are compared with the early work and the recent work. Our proposed work is more effective and provides the suitable result through our method which leads to existing work. Our method will help to find legal signature of authorized use for security and avoid illegal work.

scholarly journals Readability and adaptation of children’s literary works from the perspective of ideational grammatical metaphor

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Original Version ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Grammatical Metaphor ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
Education Psychology ◽  
And Linguistics

Abstract Widely studied in fields like education, psychology, and linguistics, readability can be defined as (a) reader’s understanding of a reading text, (b) features of a text, or (c) the matching of a text to its reader. The existing research has been focused on the formulaic and multilevel discourse approaches, relatively neglecting others such as systemic functional linguistics oriented one. Moreover, contemporary reading materials pose as a challenge for average children in many ways. This study examines readability and adaptation of children’s literary works from the perspective of ideational grammatical metaphor inspired by systemic functional linguistics. Through case studies of metaphorical transferences involving zero, one, two, and three ideational grammatical metaphors used in the parallel excerpts in the original version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its eight adapted ones published in China, it is concluded that addition, maintenance, revision, unpacking, and demetaphorization are five major strategies which are found to decrease, maintain, or increase readability of some parts in the adapted versions.

scholarly journals A Systemic Functional Analysis of Theme in Modern Standard Arabic Texts

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Tareq Alfraidi
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern Standard Arabic ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
Standard Arabic ◽  
Logical Frameworks ◽  
New Information ◽  
The One ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Modern Standard

The concept of Theme is regarded as a functional linguistic element that exists in many languages. The main aim of this study is to explore the functions of Theme in Arabic, applying the Systemic Functional Linguistics framework adopted by Downing (1991). Methodologically, several related real examples have been selected from the written discourse of Modern Standard Arabic and then analyzed contextually. The empirical analysis has revealed that (i) Theme can provide different functions, such as Individual, Circumstantial and Subjective and Logical Frameworks for the interpretation of the Rheme, and (ii) Theme can interact dynamically with different grammatical functions (e.g. Subject, Object, etc.) and have different pragmatic functions (e.g. Topic, Given and New information). Therefore, the view that makes a necessary link between Theme on the one hand and Noun Phrase, Topic or Given information on the other hand is proven incorrect and empirically invalid. Similar results have been obtained in the context of English (Downing 1991) but not yet for Arabic? This strengthens not only the universality of the concept of Theme but also its functions.

Bridging boundaries across genre traditions

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-293
Author(s):  
Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Frequency Distribution ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Lexical Bundles ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Research Article

Abstract This study explores the benefits of a synergy between ESP research on genre and theoretical dimensions of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). It models genre on SFL dimensions and employs this model to analyse 200 biodata written by Applied Linguistics scholars, 100 each from research articles and seminar posters. Data were analysed from contextual, logico-semantic and lexicogrammatical perspectives. The findings reveal five generic stages in biodata. The frequency distribution of these stages and the phases that realise them shows variation between research article bios and seminar bios. The most frequent logico-semantic (or rhetorical) relations identified among stages and phases are of the expansion type, namely addition and elaboration, Further, collocational frameworks are used in organising some generic phases into waves of meaning and in construing different identities. Finally, evaluative resources, in the form of lexical bundles, modification and circumstantial elements in the clause, are employed by writers to boost their professional achievements and promote themselves. These findings contribute to theoretical discussions on genre and the scholarship on the interface between identity construction and academic writing, and also motivate further research.

Interpersonal meaning

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Grammatical Metaphor

Abstract This introduction comprises four main sections. Section 1 introduces the overall theoretical architecture of Systemic Functional Linguistics (hereafter SFL) by way of contextualising the focus on interpersonal grammar in this special issue. Section 2 looks in more detail at the interpersonal discourse semantics underlying this work, briefly introducing the systems of negotiation and appraisal realised through interpersonal grammar. Section 3 turns to the concept of grammatical metaphor, a concept which bears critically on the realisation relationship between interpersonal discourse semantics and lexicogrammar in SFL. Section 4 comments on the challenge of intradisciplinary dialogue.

Introduction Tè glise, Continents à la dérive

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
John Patrick Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Environmental Injustice ◽  
Historical Awareness ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
Political Time ◽  
Slow Violence ◽  
Fault Lines ◽  
A Site ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
Point Of Departure

The book opens with analysis of Yanick Lahens’ reflection on the disastrous convergence of geological and political time in the Haitian earthquake of 2010. Lahens contemplates the imbrication of geological, political, and social fault lines to complicate the exceptional image of Haiti as a site of disaster. The introduction considers Lahens’ understanding of fault lines, below and above ground, in light of Rob Nixon’s critique of the slow violence of environmental injustice and Michel Serres’ idea of a natural contract with the planet. It brings together Lahens, Nixon, and Serres to illustrate the different conceptions of time and space that inform the ecological thought of a Haitian writer, an American critic, and a French philosopher. Taking this comparative analysis as its point of departure, the introduction begins to develop a theory of an eco-archive as an ethical and imaginative writing on the environment. It merges ecocriticism with the historical awareness of Haitian studies to argue that Lahens and other Haitian writers challenge the neocolonial and neoliberal political economies that feed the dominant narratives of the Anthropocene.

scholarly journals La métrica de Andrés Bello

2015 ◽  
pp. 211
Author(s):  
Esteban Torre
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
150Th Anniversary ◽  
Andres Bello ◽  
Point Of Departure

El 15 de octubre de 2015 se cumplen 150 años de la muerte de Andrés Bello. En este trabajo –homenaje a la obra del ilustre filólogo venezolano– se estudia su original doctrina sobre la cantidad silábica, así como su concepción del verso como unidad rítmica, delimitada por la pausa final. Se lleva a cabo un detenido análisis comparativo con las ideas métricas de diversos autores de los siglos XIX y XX, partiendo de los precedentes de los siglos XV-XVIII.October 15th, 2015, marks the 150th anniversary of the death of Andrés Bello. In this tribute study of the work of the prestigious Venezuelan philologist, his individualistic doctrine on syllabic quantity is analyzed, together with his conception of the verse-line as a rhythmic unit marked off by an end-pause. A close comparative analysis is undertaken with the ideas on meter of a range of nineteenth and twentieth-century authors, while using as a point of departure those who belong to the period spanning the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

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