Systemic Functional Linguistic

Applied Linguistic ( meeting 8 assignment)
iva dlurrotun nihayah
2201409009
401-402

Systemic-Functional, is functional and semantic rather than formal and syntactic in orientation, takes the text rather than the sentence as its object, and defines its scope by reference to usage rather than grammaticality. The name "systemic" derives from the term SYSTEM, the theoretical representation of paradigmatic relations, contrasted with STRUCTURE for syntagmatic relations.

Systemic-Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a theory of language centred around the notion of language function. SFL starts at social context, and looks at how language both acts upon, and is constrained by, this social context. Systemic semantics includes what is usually called 'pragmatics'. Semantics is divided into three components. They are ideational Semantics (the propositional content), Interpersonal Semantics (concerned with speech-function, exchange structure, expression of attitude, etc.) and Textual Semantics (how the text is structured as a message, e.g., theme-structure, given/new, rhetorical structure etc.

The focus of systemic functional Liguistic  is not on texts as decontextualized structural entities in their own right but rather on the mutually predictive relationships between texts and the social practices they realize.
Semantics is the interface between language and context of situation (register). Semantics is therefore concerned with the meanings that are involved with the three situational variables Field, Tenor and Mode. Ideational meanings realize Field, interpersonal meanings realise Tenor and textual meanings realize Mode. Interpersonal meanings are realised lexicogrammatically by systems of Mood and Modality and by the selection of attitudinal lexis.

The Mood system is the central resource establishing and maintaining an ongoing exchange between interactants by assuming and assigning speech roles such as giving or demanding goods and services or information. Modality is the resource concerned with the domain of the negotiation of the proposition or proposal between the categorical extremes of positive or negative. The negotiation may be in terms of probability, usuality, obligation or inclination. Lexicogrammatically textual meanings are realised by systems of Theme and Information. Theme selections establish the orientation or angle on the interpersonal and ideational concerns of the clause whereas Information organises the informational status or relative newsworthiness of these concerns.