Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I SFL: The Model
- 1 Firth and the Origins of Systemic Functional Linguistics
- 2 Key Terms in the SFL Model
- 3 Semantics
- 4 The Clause
- 5 The Rooms of the House
- 6 Context and Register
- 7 Intonation
- 8 Continuing Issues in SFL
- 9 The Cardiff Model of Functional Syntax
- 10 SFL in Context
- Part II Discourse Analysis within SFL
- Part III SFL in Application
- Index
- References
10 - SFL in Context
from Part I - SFL: The Model
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2019
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I SFL: The Model
- 1 Firth and the Origins of Systemic Functional Linguistics
- 2 Key Terms in the SFL Model
- 3 Semantics
- 4 The Clause
- 5 The Rooms of the House
- 6 Context and Register
- 7 Intonation
- 8 Continuing Issues in SFL
- 9 The Cardiff Model of Functional Syntax
- 10 SFL in Context
- Part II Discourse Analysis within SFL
- Part III SFL in Application
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter situates SFL in functional-cognitive space, a multidimensional space based on a wide range of properties, in which various functional and/or cognitively oriented and/or constructionist approaches to language can be plotted. The discussion refers to the detailed comparison of sixteen such models presented in Butler and Gonzálvez-García (2014), based on a questionnaire in which experts in each model rated fifty-eight features for their importance, together with close reading of the literature on each model. The chapter first examines the SFL questionnaire data statistically in relation to that for other models. It then considers the final ratings of the authors for SFL in the light of those for other models. We then turn to a detailed analysis, with particular reference to SFL, of each group of questionnaire items: (i) fundamental features of functional approaches, e.g. the importance of communicative function; (ii) what range of phenomena the model is intended to cover; (iii) the database for description; (iv) explanatory connections between language and the factors which are considered to motivate its structure and function; (v) the form of the grammar itself; and (vi) applications. The concluding section summarises the similarities and differences between SFL and the other approaches.
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