The general perspectives of child abuse issues are derived from the mainstream media. However, media’s tendency to sensationalise cases attract viewership may distort readers’ understanding and further propagate maltreatment. This study investigates language used in Malaysian news discourse on using Karpenko-Seccombe et al.’s (2020) method analysis Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SF...

SAlthough different theoretical models are complementary, functional models in general, andSystemic Functional Linguistics in particular lend themselves to the analysis of text. This is so atthe level of register, in terms of Field, Tenor and Mode, as well as at the level of semantics interms of ideational, interpersonal and textual metafunction. This paper will consider two...

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Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) has stood the test of time as a model of text analysis. The present literature contains a plethora of studies that while taking the ‘clause’ as a unit of analysis have put into investigation the metafunctions in research articles of a single field of study or those of various fields in comparison. Although ‘clause complex’ is another unit of SF a...