Advertisement has long been used as a tool for informing and attracting audiences in different ways. This study aims at investigating the linguistic tools of advertisement in Persian on the basis of Halliday’s systemic-functional grammar theory. The data of this study were gathered from written and verbal commercial advertisements which were recorded and rewritten in order to investigate verbal...

Abstract The main purpose of this article is to present the mood system Myanmar within framework Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). composed two simultaneous systems: type and force . former focuses on describing methods exchange including declarative, interrogative, imperative, while latter “language force” embedded in exchange. In study, certain structures for Mood realization particles u...

In view of the problem that sentence evaluation mechanism correctionnet focuses on grammar and vocabulary modification, this paper, based Halliday's interpersonal metafunction theory framework, sets up a peer assessment scale from three aspects: modal verbs, adjuncts evidentiality. Taking English majors in provincial universities as test subjects, paper makes comparative analysis their function...

If we focus on ‘relevance’, the textual metafunction creates relevance by adding prominence through assigning relative value to parts of the clause (Matthiessen 1992). The Theme, for instance, functions to select meaning(s) from the clause (Hannay & Martínez Caro, 2008) and to assign them thematic prominence, which has consequences for the thematic development of the text (Fries, 1992) in contr...

Interpersonal metafunction is an important concept when describing interactions in terms of responding to the act giving or demanding goods, services, information (Halliday and Mathiessen (2004). This article examines interpersonal meanings realized mood modality resources Interchange Series textbook—the fourth edition textbook used for Grade 3 Intermediate students. The research u discourse an...