Richard Ingold explores Systemic Functional Linguistics and highlights the three metafunctions of language with examples of analysis from The Hundred Acre Wood and Winnie the Pooh!
The Professor Felicia Oviedo shared you experience in the...
41st International Systemic Funcional Congresss
X Latin-American Systemic Functional Congress
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Mendoza, Argentina
Two Views of Discourse Structure: As a Product and As a ProcessCRISALDO CORDURA
This is are 3 presenter presentation on the discussion of "Two Views of Discourse Structure: As a Product and As a Process"
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https://uomustansiriyah.edu.iq/media/lectures/8/8_2020_03_30!04_57_35_PM.pptx
and
The book from the school
This presentation is about gender differences in the use of language from the perspective of Sociolinguistics. The contents have mostly been taken from Ronald Warhaugh's book "An Introduction to Sociolinguistics". However, some examples have also been provided from the Urdu language.
Componential analysis, procedural steps in componential analysis of meaning , linguistic basis, and Componential analysis contribution to the study of meaning
LIT 229 Module Three 1 The Function of Form .docxMARRY7
LIT 229 Module Three 1
The Function of Form
Because it resides at the deepest level of culture and our psyches, myth takes many forms
as it works its way into public and private consciousness. It is instructive to mark these many
forms and distinguish them from one another, but it is even more important to understand
their history and cultural context. This context provides an account of their use, the unique
forms they take, and the meanings we have attached to them.
The Birth of Myth
We touched on the orality and literacy dynamic very briefly in Module One, and it is a subject
worth revisiting here as we explore the history of mythological forms. It is tempting to
understand our world in terms of present technology, and most of us fall prey to this
deception for reasons that will become clear. Once, a teenager asked if the world was black
and white before the 1960s. She asked because everything she saw on television from that
period was in black and white. We tend to use the same logic when we think about writing;
that is, we project its influence backwards into history and assume that the past functioned
as literate cultures do now. Scholars who work in orality and literacy studies have shown us
that actually the opposite is the case. Human beings have existed in oral cultures long
before and much longer than in literate cultures, and oral forms and thinking continue to
influence literate cultures, even 500 years after the invention of the printing press. Myth was
born in oral cultures and retains those features even now.
A Book About the Absence of Books
Walter J. Ong’s 1982 book Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word provides a
succinct and compelling account of the nature of oral cultures and the “secondary orality”
afforded by new technology. In a chapter titled “Some Psychodynamics of Orality,” Ong
details the profound differences of living in an oral culture, and they are worth reviewing in
our study of myth’s forms. To begin, we must reflect on the nature of sound itself;
specifically, it is evanescent. By the time one hears the syllable “scent,” the syllable “evan” is
gone. In other words, sound has a relationship to time that writing does not. Writing can
freeze time by placing words on a page, but words in an oral culture are always fleeting. As
2 LIT 229 Module Three
Ong notes:
There is no way to stop sound and have sound. I can stop a moving picture camera
and hold one frame fixed on the screen. If I stop the movement of sound, I have
nothing—only silence, no sound at all. All sensation takes place in time, but no other
sensory field totally resists a holding action, stabilization, in quite this way. Vision can
register motion, but it can also register immobility. Indeed, it favors immobility, for to
examine something closely by vision, we prefer to have it quiet. We often reduce
motion to a series of still shots the better to see what motion is. Th ...
The Professor Felicia Oviedo shared you experience in the...
41st International Systemic Funcional Congresss
X Latin-American Systemic Functional Congress
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Mendoza, Argentina
Two Views of Discourse Structure: As a Product and As a ProcessCRISALDO CORDURA
This is are 3 presenter presentation on the discussion of "Two Views of Discourse Structure: As a Product and As a Process"
Credit to
https://uomustansiriyah.edu.iq/media/lectures/8/8_2020_03_30!04_57_35_PM.pptx
and
The book from the school
This presentation is about gender differences in the use of language from the perspective of Sociolinguistics. The contents have mostly been taken from Ronald Warhaugh's book "An Introduction to Sociolinguistics". However, some examples have also been provided from the Urdu language.
Componential analysis, procedural steps in componential analysis of meaning , linguistic basis, and Componential analysis contribution to the study of meaning
LIT 229 Module Three 1 The Function of Form .docxMARRY7
LIT 229 Module Three 1
The Function of Form
Because it resides at the deepest level of culture and our psyches, myth takes many forms
as it works its way into public and private consciousness. It is instructive to mark these many
forms and distinguish them from one another, but it is even more important to understand
their history and cultural context. This context provides an account of their use, the unique
forms they take, and the meanings we have attached to them.
The Birth of Myth
We touched on the orality and literacy dynamic very briefly in Module One, and it is a subject
worth revisiting here as we explore the history of mythological forms. It is tempting to
understand our world in terms of present technology, and most of us fall prey to this
deception for reasons that will become clear. Once, a teenager asked if the world was black
and white before the 1960s. She asked because everything she saw on television from that
period was in black and white. We tend to use the same logic when we think about writing;
that is, we project its influence backwards into history and assume that the past functioned
as literate cultures do now. Scholars who work in orality and literacy studies have shown us
that actually the opposite is the case. Human beings have existed in oral cultures long
before and much longer than in literate cultures, and oral forms and thinking continue to
influence literate cultures, even 500 years after the invention of the printing press. Myth was
born in oral cultures and retains those features even now.
A Book About the Absence of Books
Walter J. Ong’s 1982 book Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word provides a
succinct and compelling account of the nature of oral cultures and the “secondary orality”
afforded by new technology. In a chapter titled “Some Psychodynamics of Orality,” Ong
details the profound differences of living in an oral culture, and they are worth reviewing in
our study of myth’s forms. To begin, we must reflect on the nature of sound itself;
specifically, it is evanescent. By the time one hears the syllable “scent,” the syllable “evan” is
gone. In other words, sound has a relationship to time that writing does not. Writing can
freeze time by placing words on a page, but words in an oral culture are always fleeting. As
2 LIT 229 Module Three
Ong notes:
There is no way to stop sound and have sound. I can stop a moving picture camera
and hold one frame fixed on the screen. If I stop the movement of sound, I have
nothing—only silence, no sound at all. All sensation takes place in time, but no other
sensory field totally resists a holding action, stabilization, in quite this way. Vision can
register motion, but it can also register immobility. Indeed, it favors immobility, for to
examine something closely by vision, we prefer to have it quiet. We often reduce
motion to a series of still shots the better to see what motion is. Th ...
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A summary from Chapter 2, Barton's Book.
Barton, David. (1994). Literacy – An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language. Blackwell Publisher: Massachusetts.
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Systemic functional linguistics and metafunctions of language
1. The 3 metafunctions of language
Interpersonal
IdeationalTextual
to enact social relationship, to
cooperate, form bonds, negotiate,
ask for things, instruct
By looking at the different types of clauses we use and how we use them, we
can see how language helps us to do these things.
to talk about experience,
people and things, their
actions and relationships,
places, times or
circumstances in which
events occur
to link complex ideas
together into cohesive and
coherent waves of
information
2. Interpersonal
Language can enable us to cooperate, form bonds, negotiate, ask for things and instruct.
For example:
Let’s go back to Winnie-the-Pooh, this time talking with Eeyore:
“…It’s my birthday. The happiest day of the year.”
“Your birthday?” said Pooh in great surprise.
“Of course it is. Can’t you see? Look at all the presents I’ve
had.”
The characters give information, “It’s my birthday”, and ask for it, “Your birthday?” “Can’t you
see?” (Both questions are signalled by question marks in the written form. But if spoken, the
first instance would rely entirely upon intonation, which in SFL is as important a part of
grammar as the words themselves, to mark it as a question.) There is also an imperative
clause, “Look at all the presents I’ve had.” This doesn’t provide information; it instructs Pooh
to take action.
3. Ideational
Language can allow us to talk about people and things, their actions and relationships, and the places,
times or circumstances in which events occur.
[This is a deceptively complex phenomenon. Firstly, the language we use does not directly reflect an
objective reality, it shapes our experience of the world by the categories we use and the elements we
pay attention to. Secondly, people who speak the same language, dialect and/or sociolect are more
likely to experience the world in similar ways. Ever tried to read a biology research paper? Beyond the
technical vocabulary, the writer’s language creates a model of the world which has no real meaning if
you’re not part of the biologists’ social group.]
For example:
Here’s another excerpt from Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh:
One fine winter’s day when Piglet was brushing away the snow in front of
his house, he happened to look up, and there was Winnie-the-Pooh.
It’s easy to identify the main participants in each clause and how they affect or relate to each other.
Piglet’s brushing of snow, his shifting line of vision alerting him to the presence of Winnie-the-Pooh and
the time and location of these events are all represented by discrete elements of these clauses – noun
groups, verb groups and adverbials. These elements constitute the ‘content’ of language.
4. Textual
As societies grow and become more complex, and as the ways people communicate develop from
speaking face-to-face to writing letters, novels, emails, etc., we require ever more complex language to
communicate effectively.
Much of this complexity comes from the need to link ideas together into cohesive and coherent “waves
of information” so that the people we’re communicating with can follow our train of thought.
For example:
The Piglet lived in a very grand house in the middle of a beech-tree,
and the beech-tree was in the middle of the Forest, and the Piglet lived
in the middle of the house.
Sticking with the wave metaphor, this example is a nice illustration of the information peaks and troughs
which organise and sequence text. The starting point of the first clause, the trough in the information
wave, is “The Piglet.” The rest of the clause presents the information about where Piglet lives, which
Milne wants us to focus on; that’s the peak of the information wave. The next clause begins with a
repetition of “beech-tree.” This is no longer a new piece of information, but it’s a clear starting point for
the message; we’re in the trough again. The location of the tree is presented at the end of the second
clause and so we again rise up the wave to reach the most important part of the message, and so on.