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Systemic functional linguistics (SFL) is an approach to linguistics, among functional linguistics, [1] that considers language as a social semiotic system.. It was devised by Michael Halliday, who took the notion of system from J. R. Firth, his teacher (Halliday, 1961).
the regulatory function of language is the control of events; the representational function is the use of language to make statements, convey facts and knowledge, explain, or report to represent reality as the speaker/writer sees it; the interactional function of language serves to ensure social maintenance;
“System” is used in two related ways in systemic functional linguistics (SFL). SFL uses the idea of system to refer to language as a whole, (e.g. “the system of language”). This usage derives from Hjelmslev. [2] In this context, Jay Lemke describes language as an open, dynamic system.
Halliday described language as a semiotic system, "not in the sense of a system of signs, but a systemic resource for meaning". [2] For Halliday, language was a "meaning potential"; by extension, he defined linguistics as the study of "how people exchange meanings by 'languaging'". [3]
Halliday argues that the concept of metafunction is one of a small set of principles that are necessary to explain how language works; this concept of function in language is necessary to explain the organisation of the semantic system of language. [2] Function is considered to be "a fundamental property of language itself". [3]
In Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), appraisal refers to the ways that writers or speakers express approval or disapproval for things, people, behaviour or ideas. [1] Language users build relationships with their interlocutors by expressing such positions.
The term 'functionalism' or 'functional linguistics' became controversial in the 1980s with the rise of a new wave of evolutionary linguistics. Johanna Nichols argued that the meaning of 'functionalism' had changed, and the terms formalism and functionalism should be taken as referring to generative grammar, and the emergent linguistics of Paul Hopper and Sandra Thompson, respectively; and ...
Christian Matthias Ingemar Martin Matthiessen (born 1956) is a Swedish-born linguist and a leading figure in the systemic functional linguistics (SFL) school, having authored or co-authored more than 100 books, refereed journal articles, and papers in refereed conference proceedings, with contributions to three television programs. [1]