A survey of studies in systemic functional language description and typology

Abstract

Systemic functional theory embodies a multilingual perspective to language from its earliest formulation. However, it was not until the last two decades that descriptions of languages other than English, particularly in the light of language typology, garnered much interest among scholars working with systemic theory. The objective of the present study is to survey the growing literature in this field. The survey consists of two main parts. The first part discusses theoretical developments in relation to language description and typology. The second part presents a meta-analysis of empirical studies in the field. The meta-analysis examines the historical progress in systemic typology and description of non-Anglo languages, the coverage of descriptions in terms of areal and genetic language families, mode of publication and, finally, methodological procedures employed by the studies. Challenges arising from these analytical decisions are also examined. The motivation for the study is to provide a state of the art review of the field in order to guide new descriptions and draw implications for further research in functional language typology, in general, and systemic typology, in particular.

Significados interpersonales de coletillas modales en español chileno

“…3 Considerando la naturaleza estratificada del lenguaje y a modo de metáfora, la teoría propone tres puntos de vista para observar el fenómeno lexicogramatical: desde el contenido (arriba); desde el nivel de la cláusula (alrededor) y en términos de sus diversos recursos de codificación (lexicogramaticales) y expresión (fónicos). El propósito de una triple perspectiva de observación es asegurar una descripción más completa y confiable (Mwinlaaru & Xuan, 2016). 4 Para la Lingüística sistémico funcional, el registro como acción de interacción se compone de CAMPO, TENOR y MODO.…”

SFL approaches to language dynamics and contrast

“…The other languages described in Caffarel et al (2004b) are French (Caffarel 2004, see also Caffarel 2006;Banks 2017), German (Steiner and Teich 2004), Japanese (Teruya 2004, see also Teruya 2007), Tagalog (Martin 2004), Chinese (Halliday and McDonald 2004), Vietnamese (Thai 2004), Telugu (Prakasam 2004) and Pitjantjatjara (Rose 2004). Other monographic language descriptions within the SFL framework are Lavid et al (2010) for Spanish, Li ( 2007) for Mandarin Chinese, Tam (2004) for Cantonese Chinese, Bardi (2008) for Arabic, Park (2013) for Korean, Akerejola (2005) for Oko, Mwinlaaru (2017) for Dagaare and Kashyap (forthcoming) for Bajiika. For a full account of studies in systemic functional language description and typology, see Mwinlaaru and Xuan (2016).…”

Exploring the Organizing Patterns of Doings of the Material Process in Tamil: A Systemic Functional Linguistics Approach

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