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2006 results in Discourse analysis

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  • 17 - SFL and Multimodal Discourse Analysis

  • from Part II - Discourse Analysis within SFL
  • Edited by Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool, Wendy L. Bowcher, Lise Fontaine, Cardiff University, David Schönthal, Cardiff University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics
    Published online:
    03 May 2019
    Print publication:
    09 May 2019, pp 433-461

  • Summary

    This chapter describes how Michael Halliday’s systemic functional theory (SFT), most fully developed as Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), provides an unrivalled platform for modeling, analyzing, understanding, and interpreting multimodal texts, interactions and events. The resulting approach, called systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis (SF-MDA), is explored in this chapter as (a) a theoretical construct and (b) research and analysis in action. The approach is demonstrated through multimodal analysis of the World Health Organization (WHO) Ebola webpage, using purpose-built software. The webpage was chosen for illustrative purposes because it features a variety of discourse types, offering the opportunity to explore multimodal semiosis across linguistic text, photographs, scientific graphs, infographics, hyperlinks, and videos. Key concepts such as ‘intersemiosis’ and ‘resemiotization’ are explicated to provide a detailed account of how meaning arises through the interaction of choices from different semiotic resources and how these meanings can be modeled, analyzed, and interpreted. The chapter highlights the major theoretical and analytical challenges facing multimodal analysts today, together with the associated vision for future research in the field.

  • 6 - Context and Register

  • from Part I - SFL: The Model
  • Edited by Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool, Wendy L. Bowcher, Lise Fontaine, Cardiff University, David Schönthal, Cardiff University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics
    Published online:
    03 May 2019
    Print publication:
    09 May 2019, pp 142-170

  • Summary

    Context and register are cornerstones of SFL theory and offer a rich and varied way in to studying language and its relation to society. This chapter presents an overview of the concepts of context and register, and traces their history in Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) theory, including some of the early influences on their theoretical development and application. It explains the relation between the two concepts, and describes some of the most influential perspectives and models developed in this area by SFL researchers and includes a brief overview of recent work in the development of contextualization system networks and multiscalar modelling.

  • 19 - Language Development

  • from Part III - SFL in Application
  • Edited by Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool, Wendy L. Bowcher, Lise Fontaine, Cardiff University, David Schönthal, Cardiff University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics
    Published online:
    03 May 2019
    Print publication:
    09 May 2019, pp 487-511

  • Summary

    Language development has been a central concern in the theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) since its early stages. Halliday’s influential volume, Learning How to Mean, marked a shift from a structural account of child language acquisition to a focus on children’s development of their capacity to mean in various ways and across various situations. This chapter describes the SFL account of the emergence of protolanguage in children and demonstrates the value of a sustained focus and systematic mapping of an individual’s language development. Following from this, the focus in the second part of the chapter is on a particular aspect of Hasan’s work on child language development, focusing particularly on the questions she asked about language development and family social positioning. For example, like Hasan we want to consider whether children developing language in contrasted social locations within the same culture might learn to mean in different or similar ways, depending on their environments. The chapter shows how most acts of speaking involve not only dialectal and register variation but also semantic variation that realizes very different orientations to living and meaning in the one culture.

  • 23 - Clinical Linguistics

  • from Part III - SFL in Application
  • Edited by Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool, Wendy L. Bowcher, Lise Fontaine, Cardiff University, David Schönthal, Cardiff University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics
    Published online:
    03 May 2019
    Print publication:
    09 May 2019, pp 587-619

  • Summary

    This chapter first outlines the goals and scope of clinical linguistics and then reviews the work that has been undertaken using Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) models. Our approach to SFL contributions is organized by diagnostic groups and, within those groups, by metafunctions, linguistic levels (‘strata’ in SFL terms), and domains as relevant. One of the goals of the chapter is to clarify the function(s), domain(s), strata, and disorders which have (or have not) been addressed by SFL work in clinical linguistics. This forms the ground for assessing existing and potential contributions of SFL to clinical linguistics and the 'state of the art'.

  • 21 - Language and Education

  • from Part III - SFL in Application
  • Edited by Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool, Wendy L. Bowcher, Lise Fontaine, Cardiff University, David Schönthal, Cardiff University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics
    Published online:
    03 May 2019
    Print publication:
    09 May 2019, pp 537-560

  • Summary

    Systemic Functional Linguistics continues to be a powerful influence on education – in the conception of language as social semiotic, in the analysis of texts in context, and in the understanding of language learning as a social process of learning to mean. For Halliday education is a field of activity 'where we investigate how language functions in various educational contexts, and by doing so, seek to improve our educational practice' with our concern 'always with language in context'. This chapter reviews SFL contributions to language education in the primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors. It includes sections on teacher education and suggestions for continuing the rich exploration of functional theory applied in educational practice.

  • 22 - Systemic Functional Linguistics and Computation

  • from Part III - SFL in Application
  • Edited by Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool, Wendy L. Bowcher, Lise Fontaine, Cardiff University, David Schönthal, Cardiff University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics
    Published online:
    03 May 2019
    Print publication:
    09 May 2019, pp 561-586

  • Summary

    Systemic Functional Linguistics has had a long history of interaction with Computational Linguistics. In this chapter we address the current state of the art in attempts to apply systemic-functional linguistic models in computational contexts. The chapter focuses on the computational tasks of parsing, an area that has proved particularly resistant to systemic-functional approaches in the past, dialogue systems, and multimodality. Parsing is an essential prerequisite for many tasks of relevance to the linguist, such as corpus studies. Recent advances in human–machine interaction also emphasize the increasing relevance of dialogue systems, while all interaction and communicative artifacts are nowadays increasingly multimodal. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the value of combining computational and ystemic-functional linguistic accounts for both theory and practice, and sets out some directions for future developments.

Register, Genre, and Style
  • 2nd edition
  • Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad
  • Published online:
    08 May 2019
    Print publication:
    16 May 2019
  • A fully updated and expanded second edition of this flagship work, which introduces methodological techniques to carry out analyses of text varieties, and provides descriptions of the most important text varieties in English. Part I introduces an analytical framework for studying registers, genre conventions, and styles, while Part II provides more detailed corpus-based descriptions of text varieties in English, including spoken interpersonal varieties, general and professional written varieties and emerging electronic varieties. Part III introduces more advanced analytical approaches and deals with larger theoretical concerns, such as the relationship between register studies and other sub-disciplines of linguistics, and practical applications of register analysis. A new chapter on EAP and ESP has been added, with new sections on the important differences between academic writing in the humanities and sciences, and a case study on engineering reports as an ESP register and genre. Coverage of new electronic registers has been updated, and a new analysis of hybrid registers has been added.

The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics
  • Edited by Geoff Thompson, Wendy L. Bowcher, Lise Fontaine, David Schönthal
  • Published online:
    03 May 2019
    Print publication:
    09 May 2019
  • Presenting a field-defining overview of one of the most appliable linguistic theories available today, this Handbook surveys the key issues in the study of systemic functional linguistics (SFL), covering an impressive range of theoretical perspectives. Written by some of the world's foremost SFL scholars, including M. A. K. Halliday, the founder of SFL theory, the handbook covers topics ranging from the theory behind the model, discourse analysis within SFL, applied SFL, to SFL in relation to other subfields of linguistics such as intonation, typology, clinical linguistics and education. Chapters include discussion on the possible future directions in which research might be conducted and issues that can be further investigated and resolved. Readers will be inspired to pursue the challenges raised within the volume, both theoretically and practically.

Multimodal Conduct in the Law
  • Language, Gesture and Materiality in Legal Interaction
  • Gregory Matoesian, Kristin Enola Gilbert
  • Published online:
    04 December 2018
    Print publication:
    27 September 2018
  • The study of language and law has seen explosive growth in the past twenty-five years. Research on police interrogations, trial examination, jury deliberation, plea bargains, same sex marriage, to name a few, has shown the central role of written and oral forms of language in the construction of legal meaning. However, there is another side of language that has rarely been analyzed in legal settings: the role of gesture and how it integrates with language in the law. This is the first book-length investigation of language and multimodal conduct in the law. Using audio-video tapes from a famous rape trial, Matoesian and Gilbert examine legal identity and impression management in the sociocultural performance of precedent, expert testimony, closing argument, exhibits, reported speech and trial examination. Drawing on insights from Jakobson and Silverstein, the authors show how the poetic function inheres not only in language but multimodal conduct generally. Their analysis opens up new empirical territory for both forensic linguistics and gesture studies.

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