SFL

1. SFL is an approach to language developed mainly by
M.K.A Halliday in the Uk during the 1960s
It considers Language as Social Semiotic System
Five basic principles:
Social Semiotics
Language as a resource
Text rather than sentences
Text and social context
Construing meaning

2. SFL
SEMIOTICS
Language always occurs as a text.
Language is used to express meaning
Language is functional
METAFUNCTIONS
Ideational meaning
Interpersonal meaning
Textual meaning

3. SPEECH Temporal
Immediate
Sequencial
WRITING An inscription
Language in spatial medium

5. GENRE-BASED-
GRAMMAR
MODEL.
Based on a
Functional Model of
Language
The aim is to
provide students
with the ability to
use the codes of
writing( genre and
grammar)
effectively and
efficiently

6. What field/
ideational
meaning
Who tenor/
interpersonal
meaning
How mode/
textual meaning
Context is seen as
a virtual force
acting on and
generating
language events
in order to get
things done.
Genre is part of
the contextual
variable of mode.
Register: to define
the individual
characteristics of a
text.

7. GENRE AS A SOCIAL PROCESS
MODEL
Genres are the result
of processes of social
production
Will attain a certain
degree of stability and
persistence over time
Different genres have
convey and give
access to different
degrees and kinds of
social power
Have specifiable
linguistic
characteristics

8.  Literacy texts to create images in reader’s
minds.
language enables readers to
engage with the text.
Novels- Epics- Poems- Dramas- Sagas.
 Factual texts Primary aim to communicating
knowledge.
Technical descriptions- Explanations-
Procedures- Essays- Reviews- Arguments.

9. Media texts
Any text that
are used in
channels of
mass
communication.
Print- Broad-
casting- Cable-
Film- Video.

11. FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS: what language is doing or being
made to do. The functional terminology tells us what we
can and cannot do with an English sentence.
FIGURAL ASPECT: how language communicates beyond
the concrete representational level.
GRAMMAR CAN REPRESENT THINGS/
ACTIONS/EVENTS.
FIGURAL CONCRETE

13. Source
Knapp P, Watkins M (2005). “Genre,Text,Grammar.”
University of New South Wales, Sidney.