Academic literature on the topic 'Textual metafunction'

<em>Hans Christian </em><em>Andersen's "Grandmother" is a well-written short story about life and death. The analysis of the story using Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) reveals the meaning and ideology which the writer expresses through the work. In the ideational metafunction, the story uses the material and relational processes the most. The use of the two processes presents the grandmother and her character vividly and clearly. In the interpersonal metafunction, the sentences mostly use </em>grandmother, she, <em>and other objects related to her as the subject. The use shows how meaningful the grandmother to her granddaugher, the narrator, is. Furthermore, the change of the tense also indicates the significant transformation of the grandmother. Finally, in the textual metafunction, though low, the use of marked themes emphasizes the life phases of the grandmother. The analysis of the text using SFG reveals the centrality of life and death in the story. The analysis of the ideational, interpersonal, and textual metafunctions of the text reveals well the meaning and ideology which the story conveys. Death is only a transform of a life to another life.</em>

This study aims to determine the realization of textual metafunctions and the types of themes that are dominated in speeches about mental health on the TEDxSalem YouTube channel entitled 'Why you should take a break: Prioritizing mental health in schools and brought by Hailey Hardcastle. The method in this research is qualitative with a content analysis approach. The data was obtained from the speech text and the data were analyzed using Halliday's Theory by considering the data analysis steps proposed by Gay et al. From the results of the analysis, it was found that the realization of the textual metafunction in Hailey Hardcastle's speech was applied. Found 105 clauses in the speech. And in those 105 clauses, there are themes and rhymes that mediate messages to their listeners. So it can be concluded that based on the textual metafunction perspective, the speaker tries to attract the listener's attention to focus more on the message of what is being said, and gives a lot of statements to tell the listener his confession that mental health should be considered the same as physical health and preferably starting at an early age.

As student-leaders are tasked to manage their respective student-organizations and protect the interest of whom they represent, they are expected to be fluent communicators. Hence, they need to be conscious of the way they generate their utterances and text by considering appropriate language functions. This survey type of research determined the extent of utilization of language metafunctions in supervisory communication by teacher education student-leaders in a state university at Malvar Batangas, Philippines. By employing a researcher-made questionnaire as a primary tool for obtaining data and applying appropriate statistical tools, the study revealed that the respondents utilized the ideational language metafunction as they influenced their fellow members to actively participate in activities initiated by their respective organizations through citing favorable and positive personal experiences, the interpersonal metafunction as they listened willingly to the suggestions and complaints expressed by their colleagues during various fora, and the textual metafunction as they solicited in a friendly manner their colleagues’ suggestions for the improvement of their organizations during meetings. This study calls for enhanced supervisory communication skills among student-leaders through capacity building communication-related activities.

The objectives of this paper is to describe and explain the experential, interpersonal, textual meaning and schematic structure of students’ descriptive writing. This research used descriptive qualitative approach with content and Interview analysis as a tehnique. Descriptive texts which is written by students are the source data in this research. Source data are analyzed through Systemic Functional Linguistics Theory. It is found that students conveyed the experential meaning by using four process (relational 66,02%, Material 17,22%, Mental 9,09% and Existential 7,65%). The students expressed the interpersonal meaning of descriptive text through declarative, imperative, modality and personal pronoun. It was showed that descriptive mostly dominated with declarative form (98,51). The students expressed the textual meaning for their descriptive text through developing themes and rhemes. Half (57,54%) students had planned the rhetorical development of the text. Seventeen descriptive writing were built with two main stages (identification and description). There are 64,7% text was constructed in not proper stages (schematic structures).

Children picture books which incorporate a system of words and images devotes the most space to pictures; it, therefore, makes sense to consider images as important as words. To analyse and interpret the interface between text and image, this article proposes to use the language of evaluation of Martin and White (2013) which includes three meta functions (ideational metafunction, interpersonal metafunction and textual metafunction) to to analyse words further developed by Kress and van Leeuwen in Reading Images (2006) with the grammar of visual design framework to analyse pictures portrayed in picture books for children.

It is believed that traditional grammar is no longer appropriate to teach students especially in developing their writing skill. Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) which focuses on meaning and function behind language is now seen to be well-implemented. The study tried to analyse student’s piece of writing on one type of text in which Hotel Industry students as the sample of the study should master known as recount text. Purposive type of sampling was chosen since there was only one text analysed which was seen as the most problematic one. Content analysis as the implementation of qualitative research was chosen as the design of the study. The findings showed that the major problem student encountered mostly on grammatical structures in which there were found some errors on it. Regarding the three metafunctions, it was known that the students had been able to accomplish all criteria of recount text, such as using mostly material processes which deals with ideational metafunction, using correct tense and subject to fulfil the mood exists in interpersonal metafunction, and using reiteration and zigzag pattern as representation of textual metafunction. However, since there was problem to overcome, a strategy was proposed known as “POWER” which stands for Plan, Organise, Write, Edit, and Revise, which is hoped to help students developed a well-constructed text fulfilling all sine qua non attributes that recount text has.

This study reconsiders the place and nature of the logical metafunction in systemic theory. Halliday considers logical and experiential as subparts of the ideational metafunction, which he differentiates from the interpersonal and the textual, and he relates specific parts of the lexicogrammar to each metafunction, and each metafunction to a parameter of the context of situation. Here the proposal is to consider the logical component as an added function available for combination with each of the other three, and related equally to each of these, as well as to the field, tenor and mode of the context of situation. Logical meaning is considered independently from the strict structural constraints of recursion, parataxis and hypotaxis. Both projection and expansion are seen as multifunctional and as occurring at all grammatical ranks and at text level. Logical meaning is also seen in relational and existential processes, and as an extra unifying element in systems perceived as overlapping (modality and modulation, comparison and intensification).

According to Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) theory the structural shape of the clause in English is determined by the three metafunctions — ideational, interpersonal and textual (Halliday 1994:179). In Japanese, the situation is similar as far as ideational (Teruya 1998) and interpersonal (Fukui 1998) meanings are concerned. With respect to the textual metafunction, however, the situation appears to be different. Due to the presence of ellipsis, both anaphoric Subject ellipsis and formal exophoric Subject ellipsis (Hasan 1996), along with the operation of clause chaining, Japanese appears to organise textually over another kind of unit, the Theme unit. This paper will explore the Theme unit as it functions to organise discourse in Japanese, offering grammatical and semantic recognition criteria within a Systemic Functional theoretical framework. Justification for the theorisation of this textual unit will be presented together with a number of examples. In Japanese, the Theme unit is the unit within which Theme and Rheme unfold. Theme is realised by first position in the Theme unit, and the Theme unit can map onto clause simplexes, complexes, clauses within a complex and across sentences (in written texts). The paper will conclude with a discussion of the function of the Theme unit and the nature or status of the Theme unit within the SFL model of language, arguing that the notion is possibly applicable to the analyses of other languages, including English.

This study aims at examining the effect of utilizing the metafunction meanings in teaching Action Pack 12 reading materials of the second semester of the year 2021 on improving Twelfth grade learners’ reading abilities and to determine to what extent the Action Pack 12 reading materials promote the accurate communication skills among Jordanian learners based on the metafunction meaning as part of the SFL. study investigated whether the use of the metafunction meaning available in the reading materials enhance Twelfth grade learners with better understanding of reading materials that would integrate in improving other language skills as well. Therefore, a qualitative research methodology was carried out to examine the extent in which the reading materials comprise metafunction meaning tasks improving learners’ comprehensive reading abilities and communicative skills in English. The findings of the analysis of the study revealed that all the reading materials of Action Pack twelve include metafunction meanings activities and tasks within the three types of meanings which are the ideational, interpersonal and textual meanings varying in their levels’ of difficulty and genres. This tendency to include metafunction meanings in all the reading materials ensures the effectiveness of developing learners’ readings skills and communicative skills to employ the English language in authentic contexts meaningfully in the outer world.

This research aimed to discover the realization of textual metafunction and to discover kinds of mood and theme types dominated in speech since the data itself was Donald Trump’s speech “Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel Capital”. This research employed a qualitative research method and content analysis approach. The data was obtained from the trusted website and the data itself was analyzed by using Halliday’s theory by considering the steps of data analysis proposed by Gay et al. As a result of the analysis, it was discovered that: (1) the realization of textual metafunction in Donald Trump’s speech was applied. 84 clauses found in Donald Trump’s speech, and each clause contained Theme and Rheme which carry the message told the listeners; (2) mood (theme in declarative clauses) were mostly dominated particularly unmarked theme, which had 44 clauses while marked theme 38 clauses. Otherwise, (theme in imperative clauses) were the lowest calculation, it was obtained 2 clauses from the total number of clauses. Meanwhile, (theme in interrogative clauses) was not found, yes or no as well as wh-question; theme types (ideational/topical theme was dominant), it was derived 57 clauses, the second was (textual theme), it was derived 25 clauses and the last was (interpersonal theme), it derived 2 clauses. To sum up, based on textual metafunction perspective, the speaker attempts to get the listeners’ attention to focus on the message of what is being said, and giving many statements to tell the listeners his recognition that Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

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The theoretical perspective adopted in this study is part of a systemic-functionalist view of language. The language can be analyzed from different angles, as the postulates of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG), which considers the texts with metafunciont encompassing ideational, interpersonal and textual meanings. The textual metafunction organizes the language in a unit of meaning (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2004, 2014) that allows us to recognize how we build the flow of information in texts. On the internet, a range of publications explodes daily and we realized many new textual genres arising from the heavy use of technologies and their interference in daily communication activities. Among these new genres are the fanfiction. In this sense, the objective of this study focuses on analyzing how to process the flow of textual information in fanfiction, that is, how we can build these texts as a unit of meaning. The texts are written in portuguese and published in the two largest sites of fanfiction publications in Brazil. The results show that the functional units of amusement - Theme occur mainly at the level of the clause and that the boundary between the subject and the Rheme is located immediately after the first phrasal element with a representation or representational function. The notion of theme, initially equated in terms of the clause, can provide valuable input for the analysis of textual structures. The results also show that in each phase of the text, there may be different sets of semantic topics and N-Rheme, which is essential stages of progression in the textual and therefore all the texts. We consider Theme and N-Rheme as important elements for the analysis above surfaces of sentence - in particular the thematic and rhemetic progression and development, and in general, the construction of textual structure.
A perspectiva teórica adotada neste estudo insere-se numa visão sistêmico-funcionalista da linguagem. A linguagem pode ser analisada de diferentes ângulos, conforme os postulados da Gramática Sistêmico-Funcional (GFS), que considera os textos como construções metafuncionais que englobam complexos de significados ideacionais, interpessoais e textuais. A metafunção textual organiza a linguagem em uma unidade de sentido (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2004) que permite averiguar de que forma se constrói o fluxo de informação em textos. Na internet, uma gama de publicações explode diariamente e percebemos muitos gêneros textuais novos advindos do intenso uso das tecnologias e suas interferências nas atividades comunicativas diárias. Dentre esses novos gêneros estão as chamadas fanfictions. Nesse sentido o objetivo deste estudo concentra-se em analisar como se processa o fluxo de informação textual de fanfictions, ou seja, a forma como se constroem esses textos como unidade de sentido. Os textos são escritos em língua portuguesa e publicados nos dois maiores sites de publicações de fanfictions do Brasil. Os resultados mostram que as unidades funcionais Tema-Rema se manifestam principalmente ao nível da oração e que a fronteira entre o Tema e o Rema se situa imediatamente após o primeiro elemento frásico com uma função ideacional ou de representação. A noção de Tema, inicialmente equacionada ao nível da oração, pode fornecer elementos válidos para a análise de estruturas textuais. Os resultados mostram ainda que, em cada estágio do texto, é possível haver distintos conjuntos semânticos de Temas e N-Remas oracionais, o que é determinante na progressão textual dos estágios e, por conseguinte, da globalidade dos textos. Consideramos os Temas oracionais e a análise do conjunto de N-Rema como elementos importantes para a análise de diversas dimensões acima da oração designadamente a progressão e o desenvolvimento temáticos e remáticos e, de um modo geral, a construção da estrutura textual.

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo ressaltar a relevância da utilização do gênero textual carta do leitor nas aulas de Língua Portuguesa como recurso para ampliar a competência textual e argumentativa dos discentes. Visando explorar as características funcionais e estruturais da carta, é possível despertar nos estudantes um conhecimento aplicável aos demais gêneros de tipologia argumentativa e enriquecer, consequentemente, suas observações como leitor, pois o trabalho com a carta promove a análise e a reflexão de seu conteúdo e de seus elementos composicionais. Tendo em vista os princípios da Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional, o trabalho foi desenvolvido seguindo os pressupostos das Metafunções da Linguagem (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2004) e da Teoria da Valoração (MARTIN; WHITE, 2005). O corpus analisado é composto de quatro cartas do leitor, avaliadas de forma demonstrativa, e outras vinte e seis, apresentadas com avaliações qualitativas e quantitativas por meio de tabela. Também são utilizados trechos selecionados de outras dez cartas do leitor. O material engloba as trocas interpessoais e as ocorrências de Engajamento, Julgamento e Apreciação. O texto dos autores das cartas foi analisado por meio da identificação de marcas linguísticas de interpessoalidade e, principalmente, de Valoração. Além disso, outros eixos temáticos são explorados, como os cortes impostos às cartas, que criam a carta do editor, e a importância da revisão textual. Os resultados quantitativos e qualitativos da pesquisa revelam que as cartas são escritas com a finalidade de estabelecer trocas de informações e opiniões acerca de comportamentos humanos e, às vezes, de avaliações estéticas de composição, de reação ou de valor social, em que o posicionamento do autor é revelado por seu Engajamento autoral. Desse modo, verifica-se que o uso das cartas do leitor, em sala de aula, possibilita aos alunos ampliar as competências de exposição de ideias, de interação com o interlocutor e de inserção em diferentes práticas sociais
This research aims to highlight the relevance of using the genre reader's letter in Portuguese classes as a resource to expand the textual and argumentative competence of students. In order to explore the functional and structural characteristics of a letter, it is possible to awaken in students an applicable knowledge to other argumentative type of genres and enrich hence its observations as a reader, since the work with letters promotes the analysis and reflection of its content and its compositional elements. In view of the principles of Systemic Functional Linguistics, this study was conducted following the assumptions of the Language Metafunction (HALLIDAY; MATHIESSEN, 2004) and the Theory of Valuation (MARTIN; WHITE, 2005). The analyzed corpus is composed of four readers letters, evaluated demonstratively, and other twenty-six, presented with qualitative and quantitative assessments through table. Ten other selected readers letters excerpts are also used. The material includes interpersonal exchanges and Engagement occurrences, Judgment and Assessment. The text of the authors of the letters was analyzed by identifying linguistic brands, interpersonal skills and especially of Valuation. In addition, other themes are explored, such cuts imposed to the letters that create the letter from the editor, and the importance of textual revision. The quantitative and qualitative results of the research show that the letters are written with the purpose of establishing exchanges of information and opinions on human behaviors and sometimes aesthetic evaluations of composition, reaction or social value, wherein the position of the author is revealed by his authorial Engagement. Thus, it appears that the use of reader's letters, in the classroom, allows students to broaden the exposure of skills of ideas, interaction with the interlocutor and different social practices

Este trabalho descreve a apresentação de terminologias, de acordo com padrões temáticos, em textos divulgativos de instituições de assistência agropecuária direcionados a agricultores familiares do Brasil. A descrição e a análise partem dos pressupostos teóricos de alguns dos estudos de Terminologia de perspectiva textual (CIAPUSCIO, 2003), da Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2014) e da Análise do Discurso da Divulgação Científica (CASSANY; MARTÍ, 1998; CASSANY; LÓPEZ; MARTÍ, 2000; CASSANY, 2003; CALSAMIGLIA, 2003). Os objetivos desta investigação são a caracterização da configuração textual e da apresentação das terminologias nas estruturas temáticas das orações com vistas à promoção da acessibilidade textual e terminológica desses materiais para leitores de escolaridade limitada. Os padrões temáticos dos textos permitem identificar o estilo de escrita de um mesmo registro, e a organização dos elementos das orações pode contribuir para a sua compreensão. O corpus de estudo da pesquisa é composto por 30 folhetos da Associação Riograndense de Empreendimentos de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural (EMATER-RS) e um corpus de contraste composto de 30 folhetos produzidos pela Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA). Primeiramente, foram classificados e manualmente anotados os Temas de 4.850 orações dos folhetos. Em seguida, foi realizado o reconhecimento da terminologia presente nos Temas a partir de duas obras de referência, a Enciclopédia Agrícola Brasileira e o tesauro Thesagro. Com o auxílio do recurso Concord da ferramenta computacional WordSmith Tools, realizou-se o levantamento de ocorrências de terminologia Os resultados demonstraram que os folhetos de ambas instituições apresentam similaridades em seu estilo de escrita, a citar: a) a alta incidência de Temas Simples não marcados; b) a baixa incidência de Temas Múltiplos; c) a alta incidência de Temas Ideacionais Participante tanto em Tema Simples quanto em Tema Múltiplo; d) a tendência ao emprego de terminologia como participante das orações; e) a colocação de terminologia em posição temática; e f) a alta incidência de termos da Engenharia Agronômica incorporados à Língua Portuguesa. Dentre as diferenças encontradas, os folhetos da EMATER/RS apresentaram: a) alta incidência de Temas Ideacionais Processo referentes a orações imperativas; b) maior proporção de Temas Ideacionais Participante; c) maior proporção de terminologia em Temas Ideacionais Participante; d) menor proporção de Temas Textuais; e e) maior incidência de Temas Ideacionais Elípticos. Já os folhetos da EMBRAPA apresentaram: a) maior proporção de Temas Textuais; b) maior proporção de Temas Ideacionais Circunstância; c) maior índice de Temas Ideacionais Oracionais; e d) maior incidência de terminologia em Temas Ideacionais Oracionais. Dessas constatações, conclui-se que a terminologia, nos folhetos da EMATER/RS, está organizada em um padrão temático mais típico de escrita (ordem sujeito-verbo-objeto). Por outro lado, os folhetos dessa instituição fazem uso de estruturas temáticas que podem ser menos acessíveis para o leitor de escolaridade limitada. O baixo índice de Temas Textuais em Temas com terminologia também serve como indicativo para o aumento da complexidade do texto para o leitor (agricultor), já que exigiria, em tese, uma maior capacidade de interpretação da mensagem.
This research describes the presentation of terminologies according to the thematic patterns in divulgative texts to family farmers produced by agricultural assistance institutions in Brazil. The description and analysis part from the theoretical assumptions of some of the studies in Terminology under the textual perspective (CIAPUSCIO, 2003), Systemic-Functional Linguistics (HALLIDAY, MATTHIESSEN, 2014) and Scientific Publication under the perspective of Discourse Analysis (CASSANY; MARTÍ, 1998; CASSANY, LOPEZ, MARTÍ, 2000, CASSANY, 2003, CALSAMIGLIA, 2003). The aims of this investigation are the characterization of the textual structuring and of the terminologies presented in the thematic structures of the clauses in order to promote textual and terminological accessibility of these materials for readers of limited schooling. The thematic patterns of texts allow the identification of a register’s writing style, and the elements’ organization in the clauses can contribute to their understanding. The study corpus of this investigation consisted of 30 leaflets from Associação Riograndense de Empreendimentos de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural (EMATER-RS) and a contrasting corpus of 30 leaflets produced by Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA). Firstly, the Themes of 4.850 clauses in the leaflets were classified and manually annotated. The terminology present in the Themes was acknowledged in two reference works, the Enciclopédia Agrícola Brasileira and the thesaurus Thesagro. By using WordSmith Tools Concord, we mapped the occurrences of terminology The results showed that the leaflets of both institutions present similarities in their writing style, which are: a) the high incidence of unmarked Simple Theme; b) the low incidence of Multiple Themes; c) the high incidence of Participant as Theme in both Single and Multiple Themes; d) the tendency to position terminology as a participant in the clauses; e) terminology in thematic position; and f) the high incidence of Agronomic Engineering terms incorporated in Portuguese. Among the differences found, the leaflets produced by EMATER/RS presented: a) high incidence of Process as Theme in imperative clauses; b) greater proportion of Participant as Theme; c) greater proportion of terminology as Participant; d) lower proportion of Textual Themes; and e) higher incidence of Elliptical Themes. The leaflets produced by EMBRAPA presented: a) greater proportion of Textual Themes; b) greater proportion of Circumstance as Theme; c) higher incidence of dependent clauses as Theme; and d) higher incidence of terminology in dependent clauses as Theme. From these findings, it can be concluded that the terminology is organized in a more typical thematic written pattern (subject-verb-object order) in leaflets produced by EMATER/RS. On the other hand, these leaflets make use of thematic structures that may be less accessible to readers of limited schooling. The low incidence of Textual Themes, in Themes where terminology is present, and high incidence of imperative clauses serve as indications of complexity in the texts for the mentioned reader (family farmer), since it would demand, in theory, a greater capacity to interpret the message.

I denna uppsats presenteras en textanalytisk studie av ett urval pressmeddelanden från organisationen Djurens Rätt. Studiens syfte är att undersöka hur Djurens Rätt positionerar sig bland de deltagare som beskrivs i deras pressmeddelanden. Djurens Rätt är en ideell och idéburen organisation vilket gör det intressant att undersöka hur dessa förhåller sig till andra aktörer i samhället i sina pressmeddelanden. Studien ut-går teoretiskt och metodologiskt främst från den systemisk-funktionella grammati-ken med fokus på det ideationella och erfarenhetsmässiga. Utöver detta är även positioneringsbegreppet och Greimas aktantmodell centrala för studien. Resultatet visar att Djurens Rätt använder sig av andra aktörer i flera avseenden för att positionera sig i de undersökta pressmeddelandena. Organisationen framstår exempelvis som sakliga och objektiva representanter för djuren genom att avstå från känslomässiga uttryckssätt, ibland tala om djuren i statistiska termer och även lägga fokus på opponenters handlingar istället för opponenterna i sig.
This paper presents a linguistic study of a number of press releases issued by the organization Djurens Rätt. The study aims to examine in which way Djurens Rätt positions itself among other participants being described in their press releases. Djurens Rätt is a non-profit organization based on an ideological idea, which makes it an interesting target for investigating their approach towards other societal opera-tors in their press releases. The study is theoretically and methodologically mainly based on Halliday’s functional grammar, focusing on the ideational and experiential part of language use. In addition to these perspectives, positioning as a concept and Greimas’ actantial model are also essential to the study. The results show that Djurens Rätt uses several other societal operators in order to position themselves in the analyzed press releases. The organization appears to represent the animals in an objective and impartial way, for instance by refraining emotional expressions, occasionally describing the animals in statistical terms and mostly focusing on their opponent’s actions instead of the opponents themselves.

This study is an endeavor to apply SFL to the Qurʾān. Its focus is to analyze the textual metafunction in some passages of Abraham’s story mentioned in four Suras (Q.6, 11, 15 and 19). The textual metafunction domain is the text internal relationships and the context in which it is produced. It does so by managing the linguistic resources of the ideational and interpersonal metafunctions that are reflected in the thematic, information and cohesive systems. The study examined principally two elements of this metafunction, i.e., the thematic structure (Theme-Rheme), and the cohesion system. As to the first, the text made use of the multiple types of the textual, interpersonal and topical themes. In the latter, the study showed the thematisation of the verbal group (process) in the declarative VS clause type, which represented the unmarked type of theme in the majority of the clauses; and within that the ‘saying’ verbs are prevalent, establishing a projection relation. The results showed that the paratactic relation between the projecting and projected clauses made possible the separate analysis of thematic structure of both clauses. Related to the thematisation of the verbal group is the presence of the Subject, through the verbal inflection, in different pronominal forms. Therefore, a reconsideration of theme limit is needed to reflect this fact of Arabic, and extends its range. The interrogative and imperatives clauses fit well the SFL theme considerations. The cohesion was partially analyzed focusing only on the reference as a grammatical cohesive device. The ties established by both the personal and demonstrative pronouns, as components of reference relation, hold the text parts together, contributing thus to its cohesion. To better understand the controversial issue of the Qurʾānic cohesion, we believe other devices such as ellipsis and conjunctions as well as the lexical devices (repetition for example) need to be examined. As the text unfolds in a context, the contextual factors were examined, in particular, the mode of discourse as being the element that correlates with, and activates, the textual meanings. In this regard, language represents the whole activity, and its role then is a constitutive. The mode orientation is more towards the tenor of the discourse than to the field of the discourse, reflecting more the interpersonal than the experiential meanings. Finally, the medium of the language is particular in that it combined both features of the spoken and the written. This study showed that the Qurʾānic Arabic, so different from other Arabic varieties, actually lent itself to SFL analysis. And a promising area to improve understanding the text would be the translational studies. An extensive research in Arabic Linguistic Tradition is required to get more insights regarding other alternatives of considering the Theme in the Qurʾānic Arabic. Finally, it should be remembered this is an old Semitic text (Arabic) that had been shaped and created within its own grammatical and rhetorical realms; and our study is but an approximation in terms of SFL.
Thesis (M.Phil.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2016.