Language Education and Systemic Functional Linguistics

Systemic functional linguistics and code theory

No theory is an island. In the case of systemic functional linguistics (SFL), its most long-standing and intense relationship has been with code theory, a sociological framework originated by Basil Bemstein that has recently been developed into Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) (Maton2014b). From their beginnings, scholars developing these approaches have engaged in exchanges over a wide range of ...

Evolving systemic functional linguistics: beyond the clause

In this autobiographical essay I reflect on my training in linguistics and the way it affected my interpretation and development of SFL theory. In particular I am concerned to show how I tried to help SFL evolve, accumulating previous understandings into a model with additional theoretical architecture taking descriptive responsibility for a wider range of linguistic data. This evolution is ill...

Systemic Functional Linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory on Education: Rethinking and knowledge structure

Systemic Functional Linguistics as a Tool of Text Analysis for Translation

Translation, ipso facto, is an understanding and a transferal of meaning from one language into another. Therefore, it may be fitting to conclude that a suitable semantic theory should underpin any attempt to that end. This paper advocates implementing Systemic Functional Linguistics (henceforth SFL) which subscribes to a view of language as a "meaning-potential". In fact, Halliday and Matthies...

On the notion of abstraction in systemic functional linguistics

ion is to take a distance from the concrete world. Abstraction coincides with (or is a close variant of ) generalisation. Abstraction is information hiding. Abstraction is to keep relevant aspects and to disregard irrelevant ones.ion is information hiding. Abstraction is to keep relevant aspects and to disregard irrelevant ones. Abstraction is a kind of reformulation or approximationion is a ki...