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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"functional linguistics"”.
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Independent clause Sesotho personal names as texts in context: a systemic functional linguistics approach
… as authentic social discourse using the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) theory. It sought to analyze their structure and map them to social functions to demonstrate that they are enacted messages in socio-cultural context of Basotho. It used a form-meaning approach to interpret Sesotho names …
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Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Community College Composition Class: A Multimodal Approach to Teaching Composition Using the Metalanguage of SFL
… the affordances and limitations of a systemic functional linguistics (SFL) approach to teaching composition at the community college level. The study took place over the course of a semester in two developmental college composition classes using the language of SFL to teach writing through …
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Misrepresentation and Construction of Meaning in Translation of News Texts in the Context of Conflict and Intervention: the Application of Systemic-Functional Linguistics
… aim is to assess the applicability of Systemic-Functional Linguistics (SFL) to translated Russian news texts in contrast to their potential sources. This is in order to analyse the ideology of representation constructed in translated Russian news texts and examine cases of misrepresentation of …
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The sociolinguistic construction of reality in the closing arguments of criminal trials
… of Critical Discourse Analysis, Systemic Functional Linguistics, and Linguistic Anthropology. Based on the results of four analyses, I argue that opposing lawyers use their linguistic and discursive choices contrastively to silence, background, and foreground different information.
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现代汉语执拗义评注性副词的 句法、语义和语用研究
… based on some theories and concepts of cognitive functional linguistics, this paper makes a discussion about the commentary adverbs denoting obstinacy from the aspects of syntax, semantics and pragmatics.
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Gendered Representations of Jazz Vocal Artists: A Critical Discourse Analysis of CD and Performance Reviews, and Interviews
… analysis, inspired by M.A.K. Halliday's systemic functional linguistics and Norman Fairclough's qualitative critical discourse analysis, to explicate the unequal distribution of power in society as represented by the institutions of jazz and mass media, in discourse about jazz vocal artists. …
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A sociosemantic examination of secondary English teacher written feedback
<p>The purpose of this study was to provide a functional linguistic based description of teacher writing comments in secondary ELA classrooms. Based within a case study methodology, this study used analytical tools from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) in …
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A variação entre formas de futuro do pretérito e de pretérito imperfeito no português informal no Rio de Janeiro
… Change, associated with hypotheses based on the Functional Linguistics. We review texts which treat this phenomenum according to either a grammatical or a linguistic approach. Then, the samples of spoken and written language used in this research are described. We work with the conventional …
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CLASSROOM DISCOURSE OF ELEMENTARY ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS’ WRITING INSTRUCTION IN A MIDWESTERN SCHOOL
… both a qualitative analysis and a Systemic Functional Linguistics discourse analysis. The findings of this research suggest that there are a number of factors that influence the discourse of writing for ELLs, including teacher ideologies, outside assessments and that these directly affect …
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A multimodal analysis of selected National Lovelife HIV/AIDS prevention campaign texts
… often favoured by those working in systemic functional linguistics is that it enables the researcher to account for social context, economic, linguistic, cultural and behavioural factors that play a role during the decoding phase.
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Cracking The Code: Accreditation Of Prior Experiential Learning And The Discourses Of Higher Education
… using Critical Discourse Analysis and Systemic Functional Linguistics. The conclusions find that the discoursal practices of the academy and the social structures they represent and create constitute a constraint on the potential of APEL as an instrument for broadening the recognition of …
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The text compositional architecture of university lectures: an exploration of genre and periodicity in spoken academic discourse
… so, it employs techniques developed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to investigate how lectures are structured in terms of “genre” and the related issue of what is termed “hierarchy of periodicity”. It applies these techniques to the analysis of a small selection of university lectures …
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An examination of the concept of "genre" as a tool for the design of speaking activities for English for specific purposes (ESP)
… argumentative discussion. Concepts from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) applied to prosody and pragmatics were used to identify language features important for raising students' awareness of characteristics of this genre. The most important aspect addressed in this research was investigating …
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Conjunction is more than just a grammatical resource: a comparative study of conjunctions in U.S. and Chinese mathematics lessons
… statements. Borrowing from the systemic functional linguistics (SFL) perspective, conjunction analysis was conducted on 13 U.S. lessons and 17 Chinese lessons to examine differences in the frequency and use of conjunctions between U.S. and Chinese lessons. Findings indicated that students …
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An examination of positioning in editorials, business and sports commentaries in the Lesotho weekly newspaper, Public Eye
… to media production and media genres, Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), CDA, and strategies of positioning. In Chapter 3, I describe the qualitative methodology on which my data collection and analysis were premised. For my analysis I used the CDA as well as Fairclough's three-dimensional …
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Empowering the powerful: a critical discourse analysis of public discourse on graduate employability
… analysis (Martin & White, 2005) from Systemic Functional Linguistics. The analysis looks at the grammatical roles and evaluation of important social actor groups in the graduate employability issue (e.g. government, government link companies, employers, graduates, parents and teachers). The …
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The IPAD and the Development of Speaking and Writing in the Secondary EFL Classroom
… data was also informed by Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), and a Task-based language teaching (TBLT) framework was used to design writing and speaking tasks. Results show a positive influence on student motivation towards the performance of speaking tasks and improvements on …
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Toward a genre writing curriculum: Schooling genres in the Common Core State Standards
… framework from the Sydney-based Systemic Functional Linguistics (Martin & Rose, 2008; Rose & Martin, 2012), this analysis provides detailed functional explanations of the kinds of genres students are expected to write in and the kinds of language students might use in those genres in order …
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Teaching subjects as languages: academic English development in the multilingual post-primary classroom
… specific to this context in real terms. Systemic functional linguistics, particularly genre theory, provides the linguistic theoretical framework, with sociocultural perspectives based on the work of Vygotsky providing the theory of learning. Language is integral to learning. As academic English …
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