To Make A Difference: Interpersonal Meanings in Museum-Texts: A Case-Study of the Children’s Museum in Amman

Systemic Functional Linguistics explicates how texts communicate ideational, interpersonal, and textual meanings. Texts produced by cultural pedagogic institutions, such as museums, depend on several discursive choices to construct interpersonal meanings communicated through the interaction between institution, what it stands for, interactant visitors. Museum-texts to/with visitors pertaining social relationships construed both museum its audience mutual them in relation role, status, distance, feelings of solidarity affiliation. Meanwhile, children museums have become a widespread phenomenon that promote edifying missions entertaining, interacting, learning. This study recognises one exhibition, named ‘I am Change’ Children’s Museum Amman, relies verbal communication align young into shared dispositions perspectives towards environmental concerns related importance conserving electric energy water resources Jordan.