Effective communication in clinical interaction is an important issue because the message must be received appropriately by patient to increase patient’s health quality. It could become more complex when occurred sensitive contexts such as delivery of bad news related patient's condition. Studies on genre delivering doctors and linguistic features used that are realized medical-themed movies ha...

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...

Written assessment feedback in higher education has been examined from different perspectives. However, there is limited empirical evidence of how tutors use language to provide on students’ assessed academic writing. By deploying the rarely used Appraisal framework Systemic Functional Linguistics, this innovative study evaluative by undergraduate business writing two assignments at a distance ...

This qualitative case study research set out to look at the concepts of hegemony and power in supervisory meetings centered on idea linguistic ideologies. Two BS (English) supervisees their supervisors were chosen for as two studies recorded later transcribed analysis purpose. The adopted Halliday’s Systematic Functional Linguistics (SFL) data collection Norman Fairclough's Critical Discourse A...

This paper gives a brief overview of the development of Michael Halliday’s work in Systemic Functional Linguistics over the last sixty years and recalls some anecdotes relating to the research projects he directed at University College London in the 1960s. It locates the author’s approach in relation to Systemic Functional Linguistics and raises some questions to do with possible avenues of fut...

To better engage with patients, nurses need employ various communication skills, particularly “engagement strategies” that enable them to understand, elicit or empathize patients’ concerns. Such engagement is essential delivering good patient-centered care. This paper describes one part of a mixed-methods needs analysis: the aim was find and analyze illustrative examples actual nursing in Engli...