scholarly journals REFLECTIONS ON THE MAIN SYNTACTIC PROCESSES OF THEMATIZATION IN ENGLISH IN ALAN PATON’S PLAY SPONONO

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 70-82
Author(s):  
Maria Martinez Lirola
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Culture And Language

This paper will analyse the main marked syntactic structures of thematization in English in the play Sponono, written by Alan Paton in 1965. The analysis will point out that due to the use of these thematization processes in the play, i.e. cleft sentence, pseudo-cleft sentence, topicalization and passive, the author emphasizes the feelings and thoughts of the main characters in the play. The analysis will also make clear that the examples of the structures under analysis are used in situations of climax and the main reason for the author to use them is to highlight the social situation that surrounds the play: the apartheid period in South Africa. The paper will discuss how Alan Paton creates a social reality throughout the recurrent use of these processes. In the same way, these syntactic processes contribute to the vividness of the play. The social situation of this period in South Africa has very particular characteristics that the author tries to point out and reproduce with the processes of thematization he uses recurrently during the whole play. The analysis of the corpus following the theory of Systemic Functional Grammar will be helpful to understand the relationships between language and culture and language and situation.

The methods of a research of processes of spontaneous socialization based on post-nonclassical approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 4-8
Author(s):  
Raschetina S.A.
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Search Method ◽  
Detailed Design ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Cross

The detailed design implemented according to a grant of the Russian Federal Property Fund is focused on the solution of the cross-disciplinary humanitarian problem connected with the analysis of purposeful and sponta-neous processes of socialization of the child, and specif-ic characteristics of the social and pedagogical activity aimed at harmonization of the relations "the child - so-ciety" in modern unstable public conditions. The frag-ment of a research of processes of spontaneous sociali-zation of the child connected with the estimated dis-course presented in a social situation of its development is reflected in article. In it short characteristic of the post-nonclassical methodology focused on the analysis of chaotic conditions of social reality and essence of the person who acts as the language personality who is not existing "to language" is presented. Possibilities of post-nonclassical methodology in a research of a phenome-non purposeful - spontaneous socialization of the child are characterized. In article the specifics of the social and pedagogical activity aimed at harmonization of the relations "the child - society are disclosed from a posi-tion of post-nonclassical approach", the place of a re-search method in its structure is revealed.

scholarly journals Bangunan Pembentukan Teori Konstruksi Sosial Peter L Berger: Teori Pembedah Realitas Ganda Kehidupan Manusia

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurkhalis Nurkhalis
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
High Power ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Social Construction Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Dynamic ◽  
Two Sides

AbstractThis article examines two realities of life experienced by humans in living. These two realities are subjective and objective, both of which have a high power of study when combined. As the development of phenomena or social problems increasingly complex, the presence of Social Construction theory becomes a bridge to see the social situation in the two sides of the subjective and objective. As the sociologists struggle arguing for subjective and objective dominance, the Social Construction theory takes its position as peacemaker by giving portions on both sides that are equally important. Therefore, it is appropriate that the Social Construction theory is categorized into the critical theory of a set of tools closer to the social reality for observing the social dynamic and social static.Keywords: Subjective, Objective, Social Construction theory, Social Dynamic, Social Static

scholarly journals The motivation for ethical behaviour

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dušan Travar
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Practical Philosophy ◽  
Ethical Behaviour ◽  
The Social

Practical philosophy’s return to self-consciousness began when the hope for social renovation encouraged new forms of experience and action. This self-consciousness had undergone a period of crisis when totalitarian demands revealed social reality to be marred by shortcomings and attempted to assume power through a radical change. The return to ethics takes place when these demands are justifiably critiqued and returned to certain frameworks, however the return mounts a challenge aginst the foundations of that renovation which would rely on old forms. In this manner, ethics comes into a sphere of semi illumination so as to ground a reason of self-restriction and survival set against the reason of war. Caught within this dilema, practical philosophy has to validate itself by coming to a realisation of the concrete needs of man here and now. of the possibilities of the social situation and to discover what is to be done.

scholarly journals Social Power and Textual Strategies

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Manizheh Alami ◽  
Nayera Khosrofar ◽  
Maryam Sabbah
Keyword(s):  
Social Power ◽  
Negotiation Of Meaning ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Social Rules ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
Happy Life ◽  
Address Forms ◽  
The Social ◽  
Material Process ◽  
Textual Strategies

Language is a crystal being shaped by the society and the rules in a society are mostly under the control of power. Language is a complex system having lots of choices for negotiating meaning which are motivated by the social rules specifically by power. According to Hudson (1980) and Wardhaugh(1986) power can directly be embodied in the choice of pronouns (tu vs. vous) , address forms (name only, title and last name) and some other choices from lexicogrammar. The way power is reflected in everyday use of language is crucial and this study attempts to underscore some of the methods the speakers manipulate to express themselves hinting their degree of power to their addressee(s). In order to find the interrelationship between social power and textual strategies this study tries to examine a novelette entitles" The short happy life of Francis Macomber" written by Earnest Hemingway on the basis of Halliday's Systemic-Functional Grammar (1994) and observe the number and length of utterances and turns. In detail the novelette is analyzed according to the number of special process types, the preferred mode type and the length of turns each character with varying degree of power interacts in the story. The analysis shows that the dominant character manipulates more material process type and imperative mode types, makes utterances and takes longer turns than the dominated one. Key Words: Power- Negotiation of meaning- Halliday's Systemic_ Functional Grammar- Ideational function- Interpersonal function – Material process- Imperative mode  

scholarly journals Linguistic Identity with Special Reference to Western Hindi Dialects

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-24
Author(s):  
Pallav Vishnu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Personal Choice ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Culture And Language

Linguistic identity is the common bond that people share when they can understand each other in their native tongues, even if they share no other common heritage. Linguistic identity gets trickier when you’re talking about two people who may share linguistic bonds but come from mutually hostile ethnic groups. With racial and ethnic identity, linguistic identity does not exist in isolation; it is frequently yet one more facet of how a person identifies. There’s what we might call “reverse linguistic identity.” As Boas demonstrated over a century ago, everyone has at least three independent identities: race (in the traditional, not the anthropological sense), culture, and language. Language (or linguistic) identity   take to mean the speech community with which someone is identified. This is probably always a historical phenomenon, either of birth or of personal choice. Most subjects to personal choice are culture and language, for instance, a given person identifies with, or belongs to a particular culture, and speaks a particular language. These identities may be due to birth or socialization, or they may be the result of a deliberate choice NOT to identify with the language and culture of birth. Linguistic identities are double-edged swords because, while functioning in a positive and productive way to give people a sense of belonging, they do so by defining an “us” in opposition to a “them” that becomes all too easy to demonize. All identity markers of a social group together constitute the “culture” or cultural identity of the social group. Therefore, the loss of one marker does not automatically entails the loss of cultural identity. Given the rich multilingual tradition of India where languages act as facilitators rather than as barriers in communication, one hopes that as linguistic identity. This paper is a case study of the author’s inferences regarding the Western Hindi dialects analysis.

“The smuggling of La Francophonie”: Francophone Africans in Anglophone Cape Town (South Africa)

2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
CÉCILE B. VIGOUROUX
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
French Language ◽  
Institutional Discourse ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Transnational Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
African Setting

ABSTRACTFocusing on Black Francophone migrants in Cape Town, it is argued that a locally based Francophone identity has emerged in South Africa that questions the institutional discourse of La Francophonie as the organization of French-speaking states. The new identity has little to do with the organization's ideology of a transnational community of people united by a common language and culture. This is shown by deconstructing the category of passeurs de Francophonie (literally ‘smugglers of la Francophonie’ as practice) to which the organization assigns migrants in non-Francophone countries who allegedly spread the French language and Francophone culture. It is argued that the notion of “Francophone” must be grounded empirically and approached in relation to the social environment of the relevant speakers. The post-apartheid South African setting assigns it a meaning different from what it has in Francophone states.

scholarly journals Ikonografi Karya Sudjojono “Di Depan Kelamboe Terboeka”

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Zuliati Zuliati
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Art History ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Colonial Culture ◽  
The Social

Tinjauan Ikonografi dalam Karya Sudjojono “Di Depan Kelamboe Terboeka”.Penelitian ini mengupas lukisan “Di Balik Kelamboe Terboeka” karya Sudjojonosecara ikonografi. Sebagai cabang ilmu sejarah seni, Ikonografi mempelajarimakna dari sebuah karya seni melalui kajian aspek internal dan eksternal. Aspekinternal sebuah karya seni seperti subject matter, gaya, dan aliran, sedangkan aspekeksternal berkaitan dengan situasi sosiohistoris yang melingkupi ketika karyaseni tersebut dibuat. Maka dengan menggunakan pendekatan ikonografi akandiperoleh pemaknaan yang lebih luas dari sebuah karya seni. Berdasarkan penelitiandapat disimpulkan bahwa “Di Depan Kelamboe Terbuka” menggambarkan jiwanasionalisme sebagai pemberontak estetika Mooi Indie yang telah mapan dalamkultur kolonial feodal. Karya tersebut menunjukkan pergulatan pemikiran dalamsuatu situasi sosial yang didominasi konsep estetika tertentu. Sudjojono mampumerumuskan konsep seni yang berasal dari kejujuran dan kepekaan dalam melihatrealitas sosial dan dikenal dengan kredo jiwa ketok. The Iconographic Study of Sudjono’s ‘Di Depan Kelamboe Terboeka’. Thisstudy discusses the iconography of ‘Di Depan Kelamboe Terboeka’, a painting createdby an influential painter in modern visual art of Indonesia, Sindudarsono Sudjono.Iconography as a branch of Art History learns the meaning of an artwork through thestudy of its internal and external aspects. The internal aspects include the items containedin an artwork such as a subject matter, style, and genre, whereas the external ones arerelated to the socio-historical situation in which the work of art is created. Iconographyprovides a broader understanding of a work of art. Based on this study, ‘Di DepanKelamboe Terboeka’ is one of Sudjono’s achievements depicting the spirit of nationalismas a rebel of the settle Mooi Indie aesthetics in the feudal-colonial culture. This paintingreflects the creator’s inner conflict in dealing with a certain social situation dominatedby a particular aesthetical concept. Sudjono was successful in formulizing an art conceptoriginated from his honesty and sensitiveness in witnessing the social reality known witha credo ‘jiwa kethok’.

scholarly journals LANGUAGE AND POWER IN A WTO DIRECTOR -GENERAL’S SPEECH - A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dang Thi Mai Nga
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Director General ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
Language And Power ◽  
The Social

The paper is aimed at exploring ideological power relations of globalization discourse through the analysis of the speech ‘The Backlash against Globalization’ of WTO’ s Director-General Mike Moore based on one of the Discourse Analysis (DA) approaches - Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). At first, the paper sets out the theoretical framework of CDA and the concepts of power and ideology and examines the importance of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) in CDA. Then the paper provides readers with the social context of globalization and analyzes the speech in the light of CD.  The findings and the conclusion of the paper prove the assumption that the speech is a tool for Director-General Mike Moore to express his power and ideology in the sense that he is in higher position and confirms that globalization is inevitable and the establishment of WTO is a product of this process helping countries, communities and people face the problems and challenges.

An investigation of the generic structure of the material/methods section of scientific reports

1989 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 109-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Murray Conduit ◽  
Diana V. Modesto ◽  
Winston Pugh ◽  
D. Imnaruddin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Simple Structure ◽  
Genre Theory ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Generic Structure ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
The Social

A study was undertaken to investigate the generic structure of Material/Methods sections in Theses and Journal articles, using Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar and Martin’s Genre theory. Literature to date has indicated that the Materials/Methods section is considered the easiest section to write up, with its simple structure of past passive organized around implicit conjunction depending on sequence of events. However, it seems from this study that, although this might be so in scientific reports written for the social sciences, for the physical sciences a much more complicated structure of the Materials/Methods section is required.

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