This article aims to analyze the linguistic representation of transsexual women from Ceará about female transsexuality. To generate and collect data, I used online ethnography (ANDROUTSOPOULOS, 2008) through semi-structured interviews. In analysis, lexical-grammatical choices were considered in light system transitivity Systemic Functional Linguistics (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2014) category Incl...

PURPOSE Reflection is increasingly being used in higher education, but the criteria to assess the depth of reflection in student essays are difficult to define. This article tested the hypothesis that a good reflective essay contains more terms indicating mental processes. METHODS The authors selected two essays written by first year medical students at The University of Hong Kong, after thei...

Systemic-Functional Grammar Ilyas Cicekli Dept. of Comp. Eng. and Info. Sc. Bilkent University, 06533 Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey [email protected] Turgay Korkmaz Dept. of Comp. and Info. Sc. Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA [email protected] Abstract This paper mainly presents a Turkish sentence generator for producing the actual text from its semantic description. To conc...

The lack of a large annotated systemic functional grammar (SFG) corpus has posed a significant challenge for the development of the theory. Automating SFG annotation is challenging because the theory uses a minimal constituency model, allocating as much of the work as possible to a set of hierarchically organised features. In this paper we show that despite the unorthodox organisation of SFG, a...

This paper presents a large-scale computational grammar of Greek, couched in the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The grammar is being developed in the context of M-PIRO, a multilingual natural language generation project, where personalized descriptions of museum exhibits are generated automatically from a single database source. Although the grammar is still under development, it...

The study aims to Describing and analyzing the actual reality of social work professional practice with village female pioneers in the field of reproductive health &Describing and analyzing the barriers that face social work professional practice in working with village female pioneers to achieve the goals of the reproductive health &Reaching a suggested perception for the social work generalis...

By taking Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) as research approach, this study analyzes and discusses two news reports related to the event that a Uyghur man was sentenced to death by the Intermediate People’s Court in Xinjiang, a western province of China. Both news reports on that event are taken respectively from two newspapers published in English language but with clearly opposed ideology, C...

This paper mainly presents noun and verbal group parts of a Turkish sentence generator to produce the actual text from its semantic description In order to concentrate on text generation rather than text planning we assume that the lexicalized semantic description of the text is produced in some way currently given by hand In the generation we need a linguistic theory to describe linguistic res...

This research aimed to create a prototype of the construction learning read Arabic with critical literacy approach based on SFL GBA and its implementation in reading skills. The systemic functional linguistics’ genre-based (SFL-GBA) was used foster attitude towards scope Language Education students’ method action research, hope that PBA students UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang could have compe...