The present study aims to investigate the system of the visual transitivity by analyzing the images of American English file (2014) and Cutting edge (2005) series based on Halliday’s (1976) systemic functional linguistics and Kress and van leuween’s (1997-2006) social semiotics. The system of visual transitivity refers to a type of process which determines how represented participants are label...

This paper mainly presents the verbal group part of a Turkish sentence gen erator that is currently under development for producing the actual text from its semantic description To concentrate on the text generation rather than text planning we assume that the semantic description of the text is produced in some way currently given by hand In the generation we need a linguistic theory to descri...

This article introduces an approach that middle-school teachers can follow to help their students carry out linguistic-based literary analyses. As an example, it draws on Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) to show how J.K. Rowling used language to characterize Hermione as an intelligent female in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Using a simplified SFG analysis, the authors show how teachers...

In this paper we investigate the incorporation of Tree Adjoining Grammars (TAG) into the systemic framework. We show that while systemic grammars have many desirable characteristics as a generation paradigm, they appear to have problems in generating certain kinds of sentences (e.g., those containing discontinuity or long-distance dependencies). We argue that these problems can be overcome with...

the writing skill is often perceived as the most difficult language skill since it requires a higher level of productive language control than other skills (celce-murcia & olshtain, 2000). the present study introduced a discourse-based framework for the teaching of writing on the basis systemic functional linguistics (sfl). to this end, 60 students majoring in teaching english as a foreign ...

With recently widespread use of mobile phones and SMS communication in Iran and reformulation of conventional communication practices, short message advertisements have recently started to gain prominence in the world of advertisement as a quick, less costly, available and reliable means of introducing the products and services offered by the companies and institutions. With this in mind, the p...

The role of systemic functional grammar (SFG) is usually investigated in postgraduate courses and in-service programmes with experienced teachers. In contrast, this study examines the impact SFG on student-teachers’ professional development a pre-service second language teacher education programme Argentina. Framed research ecological perspectives, tutor examined perceptions group student-teach...