Systemic functional linguistics views language as a social semiotic that is used to make meanings based on social and cultural context. It analyzes how language is structured through interrelated systems at various levels to fulfill ideational, interpersonal, and textual metafunctions. Context includes register factors like tenor, mode, and field as well as genre and ideology. Grammatical systems realize meanings through choices in content and expression that create structures.

1. AN OVERVIEW OF SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS English Grammar II

2. AIM OF THIS CHAPTER To analyse and explain how meanings are made SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS LANGUAGE AS SOCIAL SEMIOTIC Functional Meaning maker SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT Semiotic Process English Grammar II

3. A FUNCTIONAL-SEMIOTIC APPROACH TO LANGUAGE Language usage Language structures Language organisation to make meanings Metafunctions English Grammar II

4. Language and context Ability to deduce context Ability to predict language from context Language in context English Grammar II

5. Context: Register, Genre and Ideology in SFL REGISTER MODE TENOR FIELD English Grammar II GENRE STAGES STEPS IDEOLOGY CULTURE VALUES PERSPECTIVES

6. How is language structured for use? Ideational meaning Interpersonal meaning Textual meaning English Grammar II

7. Meanings as choice: Semiotic systems A system A finite set of choices Discrete choices Oppositions are important Content and expression The function of language as a semiotic system English Grammar II

8. Language as a semiotic system FUNCTION to make meanings CONTENT EXPRESSION English Grammar II

9. Grammatical systems in language Grammatical choice Order and arrangement into structures English Grammar II