This paper looks at the role of situated discourse-as-practice in denaturalising and delegitimising capitalist/integrationist models of development espoused by many national and transnational groups. It focuses on intercultural discourse between the Makushi Amerindians of Guyana and professional development workers and draws on the descriptive methods of Systemic Functional Linguistics, Bernste...

For the past two decades linguists working within the framework of systemic functional linguistics have been developing appraisal theory as a tool for analysing evaluation in discourse. In this talk I will present a brief overview of the current model and then move on to address a number of the challenges that have arisen over the years including distinguishing inscribed from invoked attitude, ...

This article hopes to make a contribution to the growing body of work on the paradigmatic description of context of situation. Having considered the limited achievements of earlier work on context, I offer a fairly detailed account of what is entailed in producing a consistent and precise description of a linguistic category by using the principles and methods of the paradigmatic mode of descri...

Using the school badge of Xi’an Jiaotong University as an example, this article aims to unravel that both literal expression and visual imagery have the ideographic function. The analysis in this article primarily utilizes the theoretical framework of the visual communication grammar, which is developed by Kress & Van Leeuwen from Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics. By analyzing the rep...

The Appraisal framework is a theory of the language of evaluation, developed within the tradition of systemic functional linguistics. The framework describes a taxonomy of the types of language used to convey evaluation and position oneself with respect to the evaluations of other people. Accurate automatic recognition of these types of language can inform an analysis of document sentiment. Thi...

Mental processes, as part of the ideational function in metafunction discourse, referto search for concepts thinking, knowledge, feelings, and desires speaker. Thisstudy aims to understand explore use trend using mental processes byDonald Trump his 2016–2018 speeches. The data sources this research areclauses containing Trump's victory speech (2016), critical speeches inPhoenix (2017), campaign...

For over half a century, the ‘imagining’ of Great War in UK has been framed by existence two Western Fronts, one literary and other historical. The authors illustrators children’s picture books, whose work traditionally reflected society’s values pre-occupations, have remained remarkably faithful to construct war as futile meaningless conflict that destroyed generation. This article analyses fo...

Abstract To complement earlier studies of writing development in the BAWE corpus successful student ( Nesi & Gardner 2012 ; Staples et al. 2016 ), we examine Systemic Functional Linguistics notion Theme as used by L2 writers across first- and third-year two distinctive discourse types: persuasive/argumentative Discursive assignments soft disciplines Experimental report hard sciences. analys...

This study will examine the genre analysis of contents Hamid's letter to Zainab contained in novel "Di bawah Lindungan Ka’bah" by Buya Hamka. The subject this research is letters. object genre. data obtained documentation their letters novel. method used analyze a qualitative descriptive method. Data uses theory because it can conclude from types discourse, as well describe its substance. resul...