This innovative collection brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars highlighting the "appliability" of Systemic Functional Linguistics and the ways in which theoretical and analytical conclusions drawn from its applications can inform and advance the study of language. The book discusses SFL’s theoretical foundations and development in recent years to demonstrate its evolution into a more effective analytical tool. Building on this theoretical framework, the volume showcases the theory’s applications in case studies exploring four sub-disciplines of language study: multilingual studies; translation studies; language learning and language teaching; and genre analysis. This all-inclusive volume demonstrates both Systemic Functional Linguistics’ efficacy as a means of theoretical analysis, but also its value as a unique approach to the study of language and meaning, making this an indispensable resource for researchers and scholars in applied linguistics, discourse analysis, genre studies, translation studies, and multilingualism.
1. Introduction: Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics Lise
Fontaine and Akila Sellami-Baklouti
2. The Stance of Systemic Functional
Linguistics Amongst Functional(ist) Theories of Language and its Systemic
Purpose Jacques François
3. Rethinking (Context of) Culture in Systemic
Functional Linguistics Tom Bartlett
4. Pushing the Boundaries of
Appliability: Conceptual Frameworks in Cognitive Science and Functional
Linguistics Jamie Williams, Derek Irwin, and Noah Russell
5. The Interface of
SFL and Pragmatics: Reporting Strategies in Poes William Wilson Mounir Triki
and Nesrine Triki
6. The Notion of a Multilingual Meaning Potential: A
Systemic Exploration Christiam M.I.M. Matthiessen
7. Maintenance vs. Shift in
Literary Translation: SFL Perspectives on the Translation of User-Related
Varieties in Socio-Cultural Contexts Akila Sellami-Baklouti
8. Textual and
Logical Choices in the Dramatic Monologue of Teahouse and its English
Translations WANG Bo and MA Yuanyi
9. A Contrastive Description of Projection
in English and Spanish Across Ranks: From the Clause Nexus to the Group Jorge
Arús-Hita
10. Towards a Systemic Functional Perspective on Comparative
Analysis in Japanese and English Corporate Legal Discourse Sonya Chik
11.
Grammaticalising Attitude: Clause Juncture Particles and Negotiation in
Dagaare Isaac N. Mwinlaaru
12. Systemic Socio-Semantic Stylistics (SSS) as
Appliable Linguistics: The Cases of Literary Criticism and Language
Teaching/Learning Donna R. Miller and Antontella Luporini
13. Reading and
Writing Across the Curriculum Teresa Benítez, Norma Barletta, Diana Chamorro,
Jorge Mizuno, and Gillian Moss
14. On the Relevance of the Textual
Metafunction of Spanish Learners/Teachers of English Ana Elina Martínez Insua
15. Nominal Groups in Arabic and English: Experiential Differences and Effect
on Tunisian EFL Learners Translations Dorra Moalla
16. Cancer Care as an
Integrated Practice: Consultations Between an Oncologist and Patients with
Advanced, Incurable Cancer Neda Karimi, Alison Moore, and Annabelle Lukin
17.
The Process of Perception in the Early Academic Article David Banks
18.
Construing Space in Academic Writing Fatma Ben Elhai
19. Elaboration
Postmodifiers in Academic and Popular Medical Articles Imen Ktari
20. A
Systemic Functional Analysis of the Use of Personal Reference in the Medrano
Burglary Court Hearings Ameni Hlioui
21. Hypotactic Enhancing Clauses in
International Treaties Najla Fki
Akila Sellami-Baklouti is a Professor of English Language and Linguistics. She lectures mainly on generative syntax, semantics, systemic functional grammar, academic writing and research methodology. She published Ambiguity and Disambiguation, (2007) and contributed to Choice in Language (2013) and Hybridity in Systemic Functional Linguistics (2016).
Lise Fontaine is a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University (Wales). She lectures mainly on functional grammar, word meaning, corpus linguistics, and psycholinguistics. She has published Analyzing English Grammar: A systemic-functional introduction, (2012); Systemic Functional Linguistics: Exploring Choice (2013); Choice in Language (2013).
