scholarly journals Metafunctions in the Thirukkural: A Systemic Functional Linguistics Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 01-06
Author(s):  
Rubavathanan Markandan
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Functional Method ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Tamil Literature ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Literary Theories ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽  
History Of ◽  
Functional Features

‘Thirukkural’ written by Thiruvalluvar, is the most well-known and highly regarded work in the history of Tamil literature. Also, it is well known for its particular structure and wording. It is a distinctive and highly appealing work. Thirukkural has been studied approaching different literary theories. This paper tries to analyse Thirukkural based on the functional method of M. A. K. Halliday, his Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). Here, one chapter – Education - of 133 chapters of the Thirukkural is analyzed using Systemic Functional Linguistic framework to achieve functional groupings of the writer’s linguistic choices in order to express the meanings and find out how functional features contribute to making the poem potentially. The linguistic data collected from the Thirukkural were analyzed by using the functional analysis method. Consequently, how interpersonal relationships are created within texts, how information is organized in texts and how the ideological positions of writer are implanted in texts were shown and interpreted.

scholarly journals Textual Analysis through Systemic Functional Linguistics

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Randy Y. Briones
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
News Article ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Relational Processes ◽  
Star Wars ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽  
Movie Star ◽  
Similarities And Differences

This paper primarily attempts to provide readers with a means of analyzing texts by using an approach that is considered important by applied linguists, that of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). This work identified the similarities and differences between two texts, a movie review and a news article, that dealt with the same topic, namely, the movie “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”. In identifying the texts’ similarities and differences, the Systemic Functional Linguistic principles of Tenor/Interpersonal Metafunction and Field/Experiential Metafunction were applied. From the interpersonal metafunction analysis, it can be concluded that both texts share similar moods and modalities.  However, a closer inspection would reveal that Text 1 appears to negotiate a positive review of the film through an extensive demonstration of declarative statements that talk about the merits of the film and that of the director’s while Text 2 is more of a reportage of relevant information and interviews from the film.  In terms of the Experiential metafunction, Text 1 delves on material and relational processes that advance the film, the director, and the characters, whereas Text 2 differs as it focuses more on advancing the film while putting little emphasis on the director and the movie characters.

scholarly journals PROCESSES IN REPORT TEXT: AN ANALYSIS OF SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTIC ON TRANSITIVITY

Widya Accarya ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
Gede Sutrisna
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Qualitative Design ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽  
Report Text ◽  
Clear Information ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui proses transitivitas yang paling dominan digunakan dalam teks report dan kaitannya dengan prinsip dasar teks report. Desain yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif dengan penerapan teori Linguistik Sistemik Fungsional pada transitivitas. Data dalam penelitian ini merupakan 29 klausa yang diperoleh dari teks report yang digunakan dalam Ujian Nasional kelas sembilan SMP. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa keenam jenis proses transitivitas digunakan dalam teks report. Namun, proses yang paling banyak digunakan adalah material (44%) dan relasional (31%). Hal ini menandakan kedua proses tersebut berperan penting dalam memberikan informasi dan gambaran yang jelas sehingga para pembaca mampu memahami obyek yang dijelaskan dalam teks report. Kata Kunci: teks report, transitivitas, linguistik sistemik fungsional   Abstract This research aimed at investigating the most dominant of transitivity process used in report text and how it relates with the nature of report text. It employed descriptive qualitative design and applied Systemic Functional Linguistics on Transitivity. The data were 29 clauses taken from report texts used in ninth grade’s National Exam. The result of this research revealed that six types of transitivity processes found in the report texts. Yet, material (44%) and relational (31%) were found to dominate the rest of the processes. This implied that those two processes serve important roles in providing clear information and description for the readers to understand the object being described in report text. Keywords: report text, transitivity, systemic functional linguistics

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.

scholarly journals MISCOMMUNICATION IN INTER CULTURE INTERACTION IN SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
I Ketut Suardana
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Interaction Process ◽  
Local People ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽  
Context Of Situation

Bali is one of tourism objects visited by either domestic or international guests because Bali has been trusted to have uniqueness of culture, safety, cleanness and other reasons. Of course, in the process of interaction involving local people and guests (either domestic and international). Miscommunication often occurs in interpreting something during interaction process. One of the reasons is misunderstanding culture owned by the speaker and listener. Doing interaction language is involved in which culture is inside of language. To succeed communication, both speaker and listener must apply the concept of context of situation involving field, tenor and mode purposed by Halliday.This paper focuses on miscommunication caused by misunderstanding of application of context of situation in community. Halliday stated that whatever we spoke, listen, read and wrote was called text. This paper will analyze miscommunication from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) specially context of situation. Therefore, the title of the paper is “MISCOMMUNICATION IN INTER CULTURE INTERACTION IN SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE”. This paper analyzes some kinds of miscommunication which occurred in community. The result of research is that misinterpretation of text is caused by misunderstanding of cultureKeywords: field, tenor, mode, social interaction

scholarly journals Tenor and Interpersonal Meaning in Amma Darko’s Fiction: A Feminist Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 650
Author(s):  
Léonard A. Koussouhon ◽  
Ida Tchibozo-Laine
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Resources

<p><em>Amma Darko overtly identifies herself as a spokeswoman of/for voiceless and defenseless women in her first three novels, Beyond the Horizon (1995), The Housemaid (1998) and Faceless (2003). By choosing women as protagonists of the aforementioned novels, Darko aims at unveiling and satirizing the detrimental effects of patriarchal societies in Africa and advocating for a society wherein exploitation and domination of men do not exist. In her literary works, Darko uses of linguistic resources. Thus, under the banner of Systemic Functional Linguistics (henceforth, SFL), this work analyzes the tenor of discourse and interpersonal meaning in three extracts drawn from the abovementioned novels. The description and interpretation of the linguistic resources seek to exude how the participants in the selected extracts establish and maintain interpersonal relationships therein. Besides, with the SFL theory, this study aims to unveil the feminist voice and struggle of Darko as encoded in the language of her fiction under scrutiny. </em></p>

scholarly journals Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) Approach and Sports Texts of the Postgraduate Students at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahmatullah Katawazai ◽  
Wali Khan Monib ◽  
Mohammad Sharif Hassanzoy ◽  
Ziauddin Quvanch ◽  
Noor Abidah Mohd Omar
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Dominant Process ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Linguistic Approach

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the scripts entitled ‘‘Sports’’ in terms of processes used and text type based on (Halliday, 1994) Systemic Functional Linguistic approach. Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is looking into the syntactic structure of a clause based on six processes including material, mental and relational process (major category) and verbal, behavioral, and existential processes (minor category). Forty (40) students of the subject ‘Dynamics of Leadership’ at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia were assigned to write essays about ‘Sports’ in between 300—400 words within thirty (30) minutes and sixteen (16) essays were selected for the analysis. Researchers used mixed-method in order to analyze both quantitative (numerical) and qualitative (descriptive) data. All the collected essays were analyzed and then the percentage of all the six processes has been shown in descriptive statistics and interpreted in tabulations and bar graphs. The findings indicate that the dominant process used in all the scripts was material—doing and happening— and subsequently relational. Focusing more on nominalization, the analyzed manuscripts were found to be wordy.

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.

scholarly journals On Linguistic Philosophy of Mikhail Bakhtin and Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hang Zou
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Appraisal Theory ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽  
Speech Genre ◽  
Linguistic Philosophy

It is noteworthy that florid descriptions of interaction between linguistics and the philosophy of language are regularly inspired. In this paper, parallels have been drawn between Bakhtin’s philosophical perspectives and Hallidayan theoretical claims of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). Through the analysis of Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism, heteroglossia, chronotope and metalinguistics, I argue that Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistic theory is compatible with Bakhtin’s philosophical perspectives to a great extent in terms of the close relations between speech genre and register, heteroglossia and appraisal theory as well as metalinguistics and metafunctions. It is safe to say that as a precursor, Bakhtin has a profound influence on socio-semioticians like Halliday who has expounded in linguistics.

scholarly journals Material Processes in English Clause of Life Insurance: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Ponia Mega Septiana ◽  
Eva Tuckyta Sari Sujatna ◽  
Rosaria Mita Amalia
Keyword(s):  
Life Insurance ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽  
Material Process ◽  
Linguistic Approach ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The research is about the material processes that apply in English clause of Life Insurance. The data are taken from the brochure of Life Insurance in five different companies. They are analyzed based on the theories of systemic functional linguistics focusing on the material process. This research uses a descriptive qualitative method. The conclusions of the research are the lexical verbs describe the type of material processes in Life Insurance brochures there are offer, receive, protect, provide, customize, request, access, earn, allow, decrease, increase, lock, change, add, choose, take, pay, buy, build, work, help, and give. Then the role of the participant involved that are actor, goal, and recipient.

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