Beyond tradition: using systemic functional linguistics in TED talks

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...

Introducing Ethics in Your Instruction Using a TED Talks Playlist

one of the most popular on-line producers of scientific and technical videos (5). The main goal of TED organization is spreading ideas worldwide , with more than 60% of talks dealing with science and technology (6). Four major reasons lead us to suggest the TED talk platform as a lateral resource to introduce ethics in scientific research and, more generally, topics in scientific education: i) ...

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 ...

Beyond Tradition

Traduire la parole : le cas des TED Talks

The continuous improvement of the quality of machine translation and of speech recognition systems opens new perspectives for the development of spoken translation applications. In this study, based on our own experience with the development of Spoken Translation Systems (STS) for conferences, we analyze and quantify the main difficulties raised by STSs, and discuss possible strategies to migit...