scholarly journals The Contributions of Systemic Functional Linguistics to Literary Text Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Arsen Nahum Pasaribu ◽  
Erika Sinambela ◽  
Sondang Manik
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Functional Linguistics

Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) refers to some kind of text analysis, including an analysis of literary language. Some research has verified the study of the literary text using this linguistic apparatus; however the use of SFL in literary text analysis is relatively rare. Therefore, this study investigated the contributions of SFL to literary text analysis. The data of the study were 20 scientific articles focusing on literary text analysis using SFL. The analysis used content analysis to expose the segments of the story analyzed and the components of SFL to analyze them. The findings showed that the method of analysis using SFL on the literary text has brought new perspectives to the researchers, and provided some possible future studies in literary works. Moreover, the study of literary texts is regarded not merely as interpretative practices but as explanatory categories for each segment of a literary text.

scholarly journals Variations of Phenomenon and Circumstance in Mental Processes

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-151
Author(s):  
Gartika Rahmasari ◽  
Iis Kurnia Nurhayati
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Mental Process ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Main Components

This research aims to identify the variation of Phenomenon and Circumstance in mental processes. Data was taken from two literary works, and were analyzed using theories of Systemic Functional Linguistics by Halliday (1985), Thomas Bloor and Meriel Bloor (1995), and Egginns (2000). The analysis was conducted using content analysis method by sorting mental processes that contain two clauses where the second clause was projected by the first clause. Data was presented by identifying elements in mental processes containing Phenomenon and Circumstance. The main components of mental process include Participant, Process, and Phenomenon, with Circumstance as an optional component, meaning it is not an obligatory component in the processes. Results show that there are two variations of phenomenon that can project other clauses complemented by many types of Circumstance. The first is the phenomenon of Fact embedded with Circumstance of Location, Extent, Manner, and Matter. The second is the Phenomenon of Thought with Circumstance of Extent, Location, Manner, Cause and Role. The most frequent Circumstance that can be found includes Circumstance of Manner, followed by Circumstance of Extent.

Elementy poetyki ludowej w powieści Rzeczy uprzyjemniające. Utopia T. Bołdak-Janowskiej

2020 ◽  
pp. 182-197
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Goral
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The One ◽  
Cultural Features

The aim of the article is to analyse the elements of folk poetics in the novel Pleasant things. Utopia by T. Bołdak-Janowska. The category of folklore is understood in a rather narrow way, and at the same time it is most often used in critical and literary works as meaning a set of cultural features (customs and rituals, beliefs and rituals, symbols, beliefs and stereotypes) whose carrier is the rural folk. The analysis covers such elements of the work as place, plot, heroes, folk system of values, folk rituals, customs, and symbols. The description is conducted based on the analysis of source material as well as selected works in the field of literary text analysis and ethnolinguistics. The analysis shows that folk poetics was creatively associated with the elements of fairy tales and fantasy in the studied work, and its role consists of – on the one hand – presenting the folk world represented and – on the other – presenting a message about the meaning of human existence.

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 Tourism Discourse Revisited: An Analysis of Evaluative Strategies in Tourist Brochures from a Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 211
Author(s):  
Alireza Jalilifar ◽  
Yasamin Moradi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Statistical Variations ◽  
Verbal Content

Today, studying tourism discourse has become widespread among scholars in the field of text analysis. However, few, if any, studies which have addressed the language of tourism have examined the verbal content of travel brochures from the point of view of the appraisal model. The major questions addressed in this study pertain to Graduation strategies as part of appraisal strategies in the discourse of tourism as well as the lexico-grammatical resources for the coding of these strategies in texts. The dataset comprised 50 e-brochures released by tour operators across the United States within the period 2012 to 2013. First, the data were examined quantitatively to identify the statistical variations in utilizing Graduation strategies in tourist brochures. The preferences for lexico-grammatical resources for the construal of these strategies were also illustrated in light of a qualitative analysis. The results of the study revealed that the discourse of travel brochures is loaded with Graduation strategies. The subsystems within the system of Graduation were shown to serve as strong tools in promoting various aspects of tourist destinations such as the number and distribution of tourist sites over an area.

Applying systemic functional linguistics in healthcare contexts

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (4-5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Section 8 ◽  
Systemic Analysis ◽  
Medical Consultations ◽  
Healthcare Communication ◽  
Situation Types

AbstractThis paper is concerned with research on healthcare communication that draws on Halliday's systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Section 1 introduces Halliday's notion of appliable linguistics, with SFL as a particular manifestation. Section 2 deals with instances of healthcare communication in the form of medical consultations, and shows how they can be illuminated through SF text analysis. Section 3 relates medical consultations to institutions of healthcare along two dimensions, stratification and instantiation; and it suggests that institutions can be analyzed as aggregates of situation types. Section 4 considers the field of activity within healthcare contexts, suggesting how texts in situation types characterized by different fields complement one another. Section 5 adds tenor considerations in the form of the institutional healthcare roles across fields. Section 6 explores patient journeys through hospitals as sequences of situation types. Section 7 asks how risks and failures inherent in patient journeys can be interpreted, and then analyzed and addressed, in terms of the orders of systems in a hospital. Section 8 continues this systemic analysis, applying them to patients, and Section 9 extends the analysis to healthcare systems, as semo-technical systems. Section 10 shows how relationship-centered healthcare can be interpreted in terms of SFL.

scholarly journals Language Education and Systemic Functional Linguistics

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sthephanny Moncada Linares ◽  
Zhi-Ying Xin
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Literacy Intervention ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Shed Light

The purpose of the present paper is to offer a state-of-the-art review on the topic of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and its theoretical and practical implications on the field of language education, being the former widely recognized due to its potentiality to encourage both reflection and action for the participants involved. Recent empirical studies were located and thoroughly reviewed, which shed light on the three most researched areas including text analysis and literacy intervention, classroom discourse, and the language teaching and learning processes. As a final remark and taking into account the literature analysis, some prospective studies are briefly proposed.  

THE ROLE OF CONNOTATIVE PROPER NAMES IN THE LITERARY TEXT (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF S.A. YESENIN’S LYRICS)

2019 ◽  
pp. 164-175
Author(s):  
Yelena Guntareva
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Proper Names ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Lexical Meaning ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
And Linguistics

The article is devoted to the connotative reading of proper names (PN) in a literary text. Undoubtedly, among the issues of poetic onomastics it is one of the most complicated and interesting questions. It should be noted that at the present time onomastics itself appears as a rather new direction of a text analysis,it develops along with stylistics, poetics and linguistics. For the analysis of connotative onyms the article presents quite a full generalization of the following issue: whether proper names have or do not have a lexical meaning. The attention is paid to underlining the volumetric informative field in PN, in the structure of which connotation takes a considerable role. The introduction of a special term «connotonym» is convincingly motivated. The article alazies connotative potential of PN in detail and gives its common characteristics.It is underlined that all sorts of onyms have connotation, though in a literary text anthroponyms have a special significance, so a particular attention in the article is given to the connotative filling of anthroponym meanings. It is noted that proper names are always subjectively coloured, they express author’s attitude. Besides, they appear in the text in different forms, realize author’s ulterior sententiae, and assist in describing main characters and their relationship. Theoretical propositions of the article are illustrated by the example of the PNconnotative content analysis: Shaghanae from S.A. Yesenin’s famous cycle «Persian Motifs» and Tanyusha from his poem «Khorosha byla Tanyusha…». The article shows contextual reading of a connotonym and potentialities of the PN connotative reading in a poetic text.

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 REFLECTIONS ON MOTHER TONGUE CONDITIONS IN INDONESIA THROUGH MEDIA TEXT ANALYSIS

Dialog ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-86
Author(s):  
Vilya Lakstian Catra Mulia
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Structure Analysis ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Local Language ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
National Newspaper ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia

English Text analysis becomes one of many approaches to analyze the dynamics of mother tongue issues whose condition is relatively appalling. Mother tongue (language) is the earliest language acquired by a member of society starting from the cradle of family. Because of its proximity, mother language is close to local language. However, its popularity is less than Bahasa Indonesia and foreign languages. It is reflected on the related texts in media for International Mother Language Day (IMLD). This is descriptive qualitative type of research using criteria-based sampling along with content analysis technique to the related texts of IMLD in the daily printed national newspaper, Kompas. The researcher used Systemic Functional Linguistics to obtain interpersonal: transactional meanings through mood structure analysis from narration, reports, and quotations. Based on the analysis, the study investigated the attitudes presented by participants in the texts to their readers from analysis results of modalization and modulation. This research concluded that the texts were more dominated by language meanings with transaction on information rather than action. This affected on the modes of delivering messages informatively and the orientation of enriching the insights. Indonesia Analisis teks menjadi salah satu pendekatan untuk menemukan dinamika bahasa ibu yang kini dalam kondisi memprihatinkan. Bahasa ibu merupakan bahasa yang paling dekat dan awal diterima masyarakat mulai dari lingkup keluarga. Karena kedekatan itu, bahasa ibu erat kaitannya dengan bahasa daerah. Namun, kepopulerannya kalah dengan bahasa Indonesia dan bahasa asing. Kondisi ini tampak pada teks-teks di media terkait peringatan Hari Bahasa Ibu Internasional (HBII). Penelitian ini bersifat deskriptif kualitatif dengan tehnik cuplikan berkriteria serta dikaji dengan tehnik analisis isi terhadap teks-teks terkait HBII pada koran harian cetak nasional, Kompas. Peneliti menggunakan pendekatan Linguistik Sistemik Fungsional untuk memperoleh makna interpersonal: transaksional melalui analisis struktur mood pada narasi, pelaporan, dan kutipan. Dari analisis tersebut, dieksplorasi juga sikap yang dihadirkan pelibat teks kepada pembacanya dari hasil analisis modalisasi dan modulasi. Penelitian ini menemukan kesimpulan bahwa teks-teks tersebut didominasi oleh makna bahasa dengan transaksi informasi daripada tindakan. Hal ini berdampak pada penyajiannya yang secara informatif dan berorientasi pada menambah wawasan.

scholarly journals General Tendencies in Semiotic Research

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (1 (3)) ◽  
pp. 96-100
Author(s):  
Diana Hambardzumyan
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Real ◽  
Linguistic Unit ◽  
Linguistic Fact

Modern linguistics knows a great number of semiotic researches which focus on a literary text both as a subject matter of literary semiotic and linguosemiotic study. While literary semiotics deals with controversial issues of the style of literary works, linguistic semiotics investigates literary texts paying special attention to the significance of the language unit which reflects the real phenomena, relations and actions turning into a linguistic fact as soon as strong and historically, culturally correlated ties appear in between the linguistic unit as a sign and its referent.

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