Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics

✍ Scribed by Akila Sellami-Baklouti; Lise Fontaine

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 451
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This innovative collection brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars highlighting the "appliability" of Systemic Functional Linguistics and the ways in which theoretical and analytical conclusions drawn from its applications can inform and advance the study of language. The book discusses SFL’s theoretical foundations and development in recent years to demonstrate its evolution into a more effective analytical tool. Building on this theoretical framework, the volume showcases the theory’s applications in case studies exploring four sub-disciplines of language study: multilingual studies; translation studies; language learning and language teaching; and genre analysis. This all-inclusive volume demonstrates both Systemic Functional Linguistics’ efficacy as a means of theoretical analysis, but also its value as a unique approach to the study of language and meaning, making this an indispensable resource for researchers and scholars in applied linguistics, discourse analysis, genre studies, translation studies, and multilingualism.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
1 Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics
2 The Stance of Systemic Functional Linguistics Amongst Functional(ist) Theories of Language and Its ‘Systemic’ Purpose
3 Rethinking (Context of) Culture in Systemic Functional Linguistics
4 Pushing the Boundaries of Appliability: Conceptual Frameworks in Cognitive Science and Functional Linguistics
5 The Interface of SFL and Pragmatics: Reporting Strategies in Poe’s “William Wilson”
6 The Notion of a Multilingual Meaning Potential: A Systemic Exploration
7 Maintenance versus Shift in Literary Translation: SFL Perspectives on the Translation of User-Related Varieties in Socio-Cultural Contexts
8 Textual and Logical Choices in the Dramatic Monologue of Teahouse and Its English Translations
9 A Contrastive Description of Projection in English and Spanish Across Ranks: From the Clause Nexus to the Group
10 Towards a Systemic Functional Contrastive Analysis of Japanese and English Corporate Legal Discourse
11 Grammaticalising Attitude: Clause Juncture Particles and NEGOTIATION in Dagaare
12 Systemic Socio-Semantic Stylistics (SSS) as Appliable Linguistics: The Cases of Literary Criticism and Language Teaching/Learning
13 Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum
14 On the Relevance of the Textual Metafunction for Spanish Learners/Teachers of English
15 Nominal Groups in Arabic and English: Experiential Differences and Effect on Tunisian EFL Learners’ Translations
16 Cancer Care as an Integrated Practice: Consultations Between an Oncologist and Patients With Advanced, Incurable Cancer
17 The Process of Perception in the Early Academic Article
18 Construing Space in Academic Writing
19 Elaboration Postmodifiers in Academic and Popular Medical Articles
20 A Systemic Functional Analysis of the Use of Personal Reference in the Medrano Burglary Court Hearings
21 Hypotactic Enhancing Clauses in International Treaties
Contributors
Index