Using the theory of transitivity system within Systemic Functional Linguistics as theoretical basis and white paper named Fighting COVID-19: China in Action, which was published by Chinese government on June 7, 2020 corpus, with help corpus analysis tool, UAM Corus Tool 3, this uses a combination qualitative quantitative methods to explore construction China’s national image. The results show t...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent infodemic, user consumption of online news content soared, leading issues doom-scrolling doom-writing. This type behaviour may have an adverse impact on individual well-being increase exposure misinformation social networking sites (SNSs), including Reddit. The present critical discourse study combines Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), Pragma-dia...

Studies investigating forest discourses both from within and outside the discourse community have seen a growing interest in how policies their governance affect communities, people, countries. There has been debate on whether these studies, which claimed to be studied following Foucault’s concepts of discourse, power, knowledge governmentality contributed deriving empirical findings impacted a...

This paper uses Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) theory as a basis for extracting semantic features of documents. We focus on the pronominal and determination system and the role it plays in constructing interpersonal distance. By using a hierarchical system model that represents the author’s language choices, it is possible to construct a rich and informative feature representation. Using ...

On the background of rising Intranet applications the automatic generation of adaptable, context-sensitive hypertexts becomes more and more important [El-Beltagy et al., 2001]. This observation contradicts the literature on hypertext authoring, where Information Retrieval techniques prevail, which disregard any linguistic and context-theoretical underpinning. As a consequence, resulting hyperte...

This paper presents the first part of a larger study on the issue of graduate employability in Malaysia as construed in public discourse in English, a language of power in Malaysia. The term employability itself has many definitions depending on the requirements of government and industry, and in the case of Malaysia, the English-language ability of graduates is inseparable from graduate employ...

In The Diagnosis of Reading in a Second or Foreign Language, Charles Alderson, Eeva-Leena Haapakangas, Ari Huhta, Lea Nieminen, and Riikka Ullakonoja discuss prominent theories concerning the diagnosis of reading in a second or foreign language (SFL). Until now, the area of diagnosis in SFL reading has received little attention, despite its increasing importance as the number of second language...

Interpersonal metafunction is one of three components linguistic study within the Systemic Functional Linguistics framework (SFL). It concerned with how language users express ideas in texts order for their audience to perceive them. In regards political discourse, this aims unravel what PM Theresa May tries deliver her audience. By examining patterns independent clauses BBC speech regarding Br...

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...