Abstract The main purpose of this article is to present the mood system Myanmar within framework Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). composed two simultaneous systems: type and force . former focuses on describing methods exchange including declarative, interrogative, imperative, while latter “language force” embedded in exchange. In study, certain structures for Mood realization particles u...

In view of the problem that sentence evaluation mechanism correctionnet focuses on grammar and vocabulary modification, this paper, based Halliday's interpersonal metafunction theory framework, sets up a peer assessment scale from three aspects: modal verbs, adjuncts evidentiality. Taking English majors in provincial universities as test subjects, paper makes comparative analysis their function...

The work described in this paper was originally motivated by the construction of a lexical semantic knowledge base for analysis of Ideational Metafunction of language in Systemic Functional Grammar and the Generalized Upper Model ontology. The work involves mapping FrameNet Frames with Ideational Meanings and instantiating WordNet Verb as the meaning evoking linguistic elements. As the work evo...

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...

It is generally recognized that many second language learners have difficulties with cohesion in academic texts.  Writing seems to be the most difficult subject for many students. To produce good writing, it is necessary to know how to organize Theme and Rheme in a text. Thematic structure as an important feature in textual metafunction plays a significant role in promoting the textual coherenc...

If we focus on ‘relevance’, the textual metafunction creates relevance by adding prominence through assigning relative value to parts of the clause (Matthiessen 1992). The Theme, for instance, functions to select meaning(s) from the clause (Hannay & Martínez Caro, 2008) and to assign them thematic prominence, which has consequences for the thematic development of the text (Fries, 1992) in contr...

Correspondence: mjmsxjj@gmail. com School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China Systemic Phonology: Recent Studies in English is an extremely timely addition to the literature of systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Despite the importance of phonology to any general description of language, the editors note that this is the first collection focusing on phonolog...