Abstract
Abstract The present article aims to investigate the model and significance of discipline integration based on the appliability of systemic functional linguistics. To this end, it first describes the inevitability of the emergence of social semiotics; then it explores the six appliable characteristics of social semiotics: sociality, systemicness, applicability, transdisciplinarity, dynamicity, and multimodality. It next studies the basic conditions of discipline integration and the models of integration. After that, it investigates the basic model of discipline integration in systemic functional linguistics, which includes four basic types: direct application, borrowing, complementarity, and backwashing. It finally examines the model of the discipline integration process, including choice of a theme, choice of problems to be solved, choice of applicable disciplines, the contextualization of disciplines to be integrated; and the effect of the discipline integration in solving problems is also discussed. It is hoped that this study will shed light on cross-disciplinary or transdisciplinary research.
Highlights
Systemic functional linguistics treats language as a “social semiotic” (Halliday 1978), and social semiotics is a branch of semiotics investigating meaningful practice and explaining meaning-making
Social semiotics is the study of how the semiotic system makes meaning in the social context, including the following three aspects: (1) how people design and interpret meaning and design and interpret discourse; (2) how the semiotic system is shaped by social interests and ideology; (3) how we can adapt to the new social changes
This study investigates the model and significance of discipline integration based on the appliability of systemic functional linguistics
Summary
Systemic functional linguistics (hereafter SFL) treats language as a “social semiotic” (Halliday 1978), and social semiotics is a branch of semiotics investigating meaningful practice and explaining meaning-making It marks a new stage in the development of modern semiotics, which shifts the focus of study from the internal characteristics of the sign to the role of the sign in social practice (Zhang 2010a: 153). Social semiotics is the study of how the semiotic system makes meaning in the social context, including the following three aspects: (1) how people design and interpret meaning and design and interpret discourse; (2) how the semiotic system is shaped by social interests and ideology; (3) how we can adapt to the new social changes It is concerned with the explanation of the variability of semiotic practice, i.e. parole (speech). Its main task is to develop an analytical and theoretical framework to explain meaning-making in social context
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