Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent infodemic, user consumption of online news content soared, leading issues doom-scrolling doom-writing. This type behaviour may have an adverse impact on individual well-being increase exposure misinformation social networking sites (SNSs), including Reddit. The present critical discourse study combines Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), Pragma-dia...

Studies investigating forest discourses both from within and outside the discourse community have seen a growing interest in how policies their governance affect communities, people, countries. There has been debate on whether these studies, which claimed to be studied following Foucault’s concepts of discourse, power, knowledge governmentality contributed deriving empirical findings impacted a...

From the perspective of systemic functional linguistics (SFL), lexical metaphors are recognized as a resource for enacting interpersonal meaning in discourse. Within the APPRAISAL framework, they constitute a means for ‘provoking’ an attitudinal interpretation. While the interpersonal function of lexical metaphors is well recognized in SFL, there have been relatively few studies that focus spec...

With social transformation and male empowerment, the archetypes of traditional masculinity are being deconstructed rendered obsolete. The changing view demands for an exploration how popular media, particularly men’s magazines rewrite discourse masculinity. Attempting to answer overarching question ‘what does mean today?’, this paper explores identity as a linguistic phenomenon. Drawing on both...

We propose that textual ‘style’ should be best defined as ‘non-denotational meaning’, i.e., those aspects of a text’s meaning that are mostly independent of what the text refers to in the world. To make this more concrete, we describe a linguistically well-motivated framework for computational stylistic analysis based on Systemic Functional Linguistics. This theory views a text as a realisation...

The world of lexis is vast and complex and it is generally accepted in psycholinguistics that it is represented as part of a large complex network. However, in systemic functional linguistics (SFL) modelling lexis has remained a relatively underdeveloped area of the theory. The ideas underpinning this paper stem from exploring the interface of context and lexicology, asking how SFL does and cou...

The last fifteen years has seen a proliferation of studies and the emergence of a promising field of research in what could be called disciplinary discourse studies or the study of discourse and disciplinarity, using a range of more or less linguistic theoretical tools (register analysis, genre analysis, various varieties of discourse analysis, socio-cultural theory, social semiotics, and, more...

Interpersonal metafunction is one of three components linguistic study within the Systemic Functional Linguistics framework (SFL). It concerned with how language users express ideas in texts order for their audience to perceive them. In regards political discourse, this aims unravel what PM Theresa May tries deliver her audience. By examining patterns independent clauses BBC speech regarding Br...

Editorial: In their introduction to the first issue of the relaunched Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice ( JALPP), Sarangi and Candlin (2010) give two readings to the conjunction of 'applied linguistics' and 'professional practice' in the title, signalling two complementary agendas in applied linguistics research. The first agenda is to extend the study of language and com...

This research is a descriptive research. In this study, researchers analyzed the circumstantial elements contained in children's story book entitled The 7 Habits of Happy Kids by Sean Covey and its translation. approach used Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL). method study results showed that types circumtances appear bilingual are consisting of: location, extension, role, matter, manner, acc...