Theory Of Functional Grammar Research Articles

A Study on the U.S. White House Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence from the Perspective of Systemic-Functional Grammar

In November 2023, the White House of the United States introduced relevant laws and regulations about AI. The regulation of artificial intelligence is the inevitable result of social development and the inevitable trend of technological development. Other counties domestic regulation of artificial intelligence-related laws and regulations has not yet been carried out. This paper analyzes American AI executive order from keywords, transitivity, modality, and cohesion by using Systemic Functional Grammar theory. Understanding the important contents and characteristics of the U.S. executive order on artificial intelligence can provide a reference for the formulation of other countries artificial intelligence-related administrative regulations and laws, which finally promote the development of international artificial intelligence law.

A Stylistic Analysis of ‘Two Friends’ Short Story by Guy de Maupassant In terms of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar Author: Asst. Lecturer: Shouq Ali Afrawi

In this study, a stylistic analysis is conducted to ‘Two Friends’ short story by Guy de Maupassant in terms of M. A. K. Halliday’s systemic functional grammar theory. Halliday believes that grammar is functional because it is designed to account for how the language is used. He assumed that there are two very general purposes underlying all uses of language; to understand the environment (ideational) and to act on the others in it (interpersonal). Combined with these purposes, Halliday added a third component (textual), which is relevant to the other two. This stylistic analysis is conducted on three main levels; grammatical, phonological and lexical. At the end, one may have a clear picture of the literary work and it would be an objective way through which we can have a new interpretation of the short story. Key words: Stylistics, Systemic Functional Grammar, Guy de Maupassant, Two Friends.

Telaah Kritis-Dialogis Mazdhab Linguistik Antara Teori Generative Transformative dan Teori Systematic Functional Linguistik

This article discusses and describes the thoughts and arguments that influence the process of linguistic development. There are two mazdhab (groups) of linguistics presented in this article; the generative-transformation theory popularized by Noam Chomsky and the Systemic Functional Grammar theory proposed by the MAK Halliday tradition of thought. This research uses a literature study (library research) method with qualitative descriptive study analysis. The data in this paper is a collection of literacy data derived from books, articles, and journals, as a secondary source to obtain information and explanations in accordance with the research objectives. This article aims to analyze and discover the dialogical-critical relationship between the two mazhabs (groups) of linguistics.

Transitivity System of Markobar Text In Traditional Angkola Marriage

This research aims to describe transitivity process types in Markobar text. Quantitative data supported this qualitatively-oriented descriptive study. The subject of the investigation is a Markobar text in Angkola language. The research was designed using qualitative content analysis. Six indigenous elders and four parents were purposively selected as participants in this study. The data source used is oral data in the form of transcripts. Transitivity in Halliday's systemic functional grammar theory was applied to the data analysis. The study reveals the following two primary findings: 1) All of the six process types can be found in Angkola Markobar text; 2) Material process and mental process are the most frequently occurred process types in the traditional traditional text of Angkola. The dominant use of material process suggests that brides ought to practice the traditional Angkola skills mentioned. Besides, because Markobar text is a kind of oral tradition, the dominant use of mental processes places emphasis on expressing the innermost feelings, ideas, and views of Angkola people.

On the cultural differences between English and Chinese on the basis of a contrastive analysis of the introductory It pattern and Its Chinese Translation

This paper focuses on one of the English introductory It patterns, which is known as Thematised Comment in the Theme-rheme theory of Functional Grammar, and its Chinese translation. By examining the self-built micro-corpus, we find that in such English sentences commenting words are usually put at the beginning part and the relating parts come after, stating the facts or reasons, while the Chinese versions are usually the other way round. This language characteristic reflects the different cultural psychology or thinking habits of the two nations, which, I believe, is caused, in turn, by the different productive forces and production relations between the two places. At the same time I hold that it remains to be proven whether there are factors of geographical environment, or even of race. In short, the two languages have their respective characteristics, and it's not a wise idea to say one is better or worse than the other. In essence, translation, in a sense, is a transformation of thinking mode. Only by understanding the thinking characteristics underlying the target language, can language learners realize the transformation between languages more quickly and more smoothly.

Translation of Chinese Prose from the Perspective of Transitivity

The Sight of Father’s Back is a well-known prose work of Zhu Ziqing, a famous modern essayist and poet in China. The structure of the article is exquisite, simple and concise, and has high literary and aesthetic value. This paper is based on Halliday's systemic functional grammar theory and utilizes the core semantic system of conceptual function-the transitivity system, to analyze Mr. Zhang Peiji's translation of The Sight of Father’s Back. The main focus is to compare and analyze the different expressions of small sentence processes in the original text and translation, so that readers can have a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of the translated text, and provide some inspiration and thinking for translators.

Empirical Analysis of the Dissemination Effect of Higher Vocational ideological and political discourse in the All-media Era —— Based on the Functional Grammar Theory

The ideational function, interpersonal function and textual function involved in the functional grammar theory are the basis for the empirical analysis of the dissemination effect of ideological and political discourse in this paper. Through the questionnaire survey of college students’ evaluation of teaching discourse dissemination of ideological and political teachers in higher vocational colleges, it is concluded that in the All-media Era, the interpretation of discourse should be enhanced from the ideational function, the value identification of discourse should be enhanced from the interpersonal function, and the social context of discourse should be constructed from the textual function. It is of great significance to form the ideological and political discourse dissemination system based on the characteristics of vocational education in China, and promote the innovation and improvement of the discourse system with Chinese characteristics.

Research on the functional semantic field of spatial orientation in russian and chinese languages

According to Bondarko's functional grammar theory, combined with the corpus of the Russian State Corpus and the BCC Corpus of Peking University, this paper discusses the language expression means of each subfield of the functional semantic field of spatial orientational category in Russian and Chinese Languages, and constructs the structure of directional functional semantic field. The research results of this paper will help Chinese students better grasp the grammatical structure of Russian spatial direction prepositions. At the same time, This paper systematically compares and analyzes the characteristics of the expressions about the directional functional semantic field in the two languages, provides theoretical guidance for Chinese college students to learn Russian, and provides theoretical support for teachers engaged in Russian teaching.

The Ideational Meanings of Multimodal Texts Presented in an EFL Textbook

This study explores the ideational meanings of multimodal texts in an EFL textbook entitled “Bahasa Inggris: When English Rings a Bell”. This study aims to describe the meanings of visual and verbal modes from ideational aspects. The visual modes were analyzed by using Visual Grammar Design framework (Kress van Leeuwen, 2006). Meanwhile, the verbal modes were analyzed using Systemic Functional Grammar theory focusing on the Transitivity system (Halliday, 1994). The ideational aspects of this study focus on components like participants, processes and circumstances. This study applied Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis (henceforth SF-MDA) methodology. The findings of this study found that the dominant process types used in realizing the ideational meaning of the verbal text is relational process. Meanwhile, the ideational meaning of visual text is realized mostly through speech process. This study showed that the presentation of multimodal texts in the EFL textbook is relevant to the teaching and learning activity for the Junior high school students. Keywords: multimodality, ideational meaning, systemic functional grammar, multimodal analysis

Functions of -(y)A Suffix in Old Anadolian Turkish within the Framework of Functional and Dependency Grammar Theories: The Example of Divan of Yunus Emre

Dilde niyet, istek, olasılık, yeterlilik, gereklilik vb. ifadelerin alıcıya ulaşmasını sağlamakla görevli çeşitli birimler bulunmaktadır. Dildeki bu birimlerden biri de -(y)A ekidir. Eski Anadolu Türkçesi metinlerinde temel işlevi istek bildirmek olan -(y)A ekinin bu işlevi dışında gereklilik, yeterlilik, şart, zaman, amaç, durum gibi farklı anlam alanlarını karşılayacak biçimde kullanıldığı görülmüştür. Bu doğrultuda elinizdeki çalışma, -(y)A ekinin Yunus Emre Divanı’ndaki işlevlerini tespit etmek amacıyla hazırlanmıştır. Çalışmada işlevsel dil bilgisi kuramının “dildeki her birimin birden fazla işlevi olabilir” ve bağımsal dil bilgisi kuramının “cümleyi fiil yönetir” ilkelerinden hareketle ekin işlevleri ana cümle ve bağımlı cümle yöneticisi olarak iki ayrı başlık altında ele alınmıştır.

"I LOVE THIS COUNTRY!”: PROSES MENTAL DALAM PIDATO-PIDATO DONALD TRUMP

Mental processes, as part of the ideational function in the metafunction of discourse, referto the search for concepts of thinking, knowledge, feelings, and desires of the speaker. Thisstudy aims to understand and explore the use and trend of using mental processes byDonald Trump in his 2016–2018 speeches. The data and data sources of this research areclauses containing mental processes in Trump's victory speech (2016), critical speeches inPhoenix (2017), and campaign speeches in Evansville Rally (2018). Data were collectedemploying a transcription study of speech texts and analyzed using the theory of FunctionalGrammar M.A.K Halliday and Systemic Functional Linguistics Suzzane Eggins and TriWiratno, which were concretized through tables and percentages. The findings show thedominance of the affective mental process, namely the most frequent mental process or thehighest frequency used by Donald Trump to show his love for the people (listeners), flag,and country.

The focus system in Hadiyya

Abstract This study identifies, analyses and describes the devices and functions of focus in information structuring in Hadiyya, a Highland East Cushitic language. Data, which were collected from native speakers, were dealt with based on the theory of Functional Grammar (Dik 1997). For focalization, the language uses morphological, lexical and syntactic means. The latter involves word-order change and cleft construction (including pseudo-cleft). Comparatively, the morphological mechanism is the most dynamic and frequent in use while the lexical means is limited both in the number of items employed and in frequency of occurrence.

Transitvity Analysis: Activity Delineation in Short Story “Harry Potter Prequel” by J.K. Rowling

It is transitivity that every word has its function and reflect different experience. Transitivity system consists of participant, process, and circumstance. The transitivity system is applied in the short story by J.K Rowling. The purpose of writing this article is to find out the implementation of transitivity system accompanied by functions in each process found in each clause, so that the correct meaning can be obtained. Therefore, this research uses the Functional Grammar theory proposed by Halliday which discusses the function of the clause. The results show that there are 6 types of processes, namely material process, mental process, relational process, behavioral process, verbal process, and existential process, 14 types of participants, namely actor, target, goal, range, carrier, senser, attribute, token, value, phenomenon, behaver, sayer, subject, and existent, and 5 types of circumstances, namely circumstance of time, circumstance of place, circumstance of manner, circumstance of accommodation, and circumstance of cause. Based on the research results, the writer concludes that the author tends to use a material process that emphasizes the many activities carried out by participants. The activities carried out by participants are also supported by other processes. The processes contributed to the creation of a tense atmosphere among the two police officers and the two boys in reaction to the boys’ actions. Other thing that supports the occurrence of these processes is the existence of circumstance.

Perceptions in Uhuru-Raila 9th March, 2018 Handshake Discourse in Kenya’s Print Media

In Kenya, the handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Orange Democratic Movement (henceforth referred to as ODM) leader, Raila Odinga, on 9th March, 2018 elicited diverse discourse on the phenomenon. The print media was replete with the discourse on the Uhuru-Raila handshake. This particular handshake ostensibly surpassed the traditional social purview of handshakes as polite greetings. Its conceptualization by Kenyans definitely eluded the precinct of handshakes as greeting occurrences hence the extensive discourse on it. The purpose of the paper was to evaluate the effect of the handshake on the perception of Kenyans by undertaking an analysis of the handshake discourse in Kenya’s print media. The study was guided by Systemic Functional Grammar theory by Halliday (1975). The study adopted analytical research design and data was qualitatively analysed as per the tenets of the aforementioned theory. The study concluded that the Uhuru-Raila handshake had significant influence on the perception of Kenyans on socio-economic and political issues in the country.

Категориални и некатегориални значения на рода, числото и падежа при личните местоимения (руско-български паралели)

The object of this study are the categories gender, number and case of personal pronouns in Russian and Bulgarian. It is well known that the two languages have a common genealogy, which determines the presence of many similarities in their grammatical structures. While the verb as part of speech, for example, has significant differences, Russian and Bulgarian personal pronouns function in a similar way. The categorial and non-categorial meanings are considered entirely in the theory of functional grammar of A. V. Bondarko, and in Bulgarian linguistics Ivan Kutsarov was the first to work in this scientific paradigm. In the present study, which is part of a comprehensive study of categoriality and non-categoriality in the language, the emphasis is put on the manifestations of non-categoriality, but for this purpose, part of the categorial meanings is also presented. The main approach is comparative.

The Translation of Adverbial Beta Clause Functions by Using Google Translate

This study focuses on the translation of the English adverbial clause from English into Arabic. The first main purpose of this research is to investigate how the English adverbial beta clause functions are rendered into the Arabic texts by using “Google Translate”. The second objective is to preserve the English adverbial beta clause meaning in the target texts throughout of translation process by using “Google Translate”. 
 
 This study uses a qualitative descriptive method. The selected date is collected from the English novel, “The Old Man and the Sea” which is written by American writer, Hemingway and its translation in Arabic translation by “Google Translate”. The study adopted Halliday’s theory of functional grammar and Newmark’s theory of semantic and communicative translation as a model for analyzing the selected data.
 
 The findings revealed that there are some deviations of the English adverbial clause in the translation process, such as adding new elements or removing existing elements from the source text in Google Translate’s rendering of the data. These deviations have affected the conveyance of the adverbial beta clause intended meaning in the target text.

Exploring Interaction in Academic Book Reviews across Different Disciplines: A Comparative Study

This study is a corpus-based study that aims at examining the frequencies and the functions of metadiscourse elements based on Hyland's Metadiscourse theory and ideational metafunction elements based on Hallidayan Systemic Functional Grammar theory in the relatively neglected academic genre of the book reviews by using a computer software. The researcher compares between two different disciplines. These disciplines are chemistry and sociology. In addition to studying the distinctive features of metadiscourse, this study investigates the social relationships that are constructed between the writers and the readers because of using the elements of metadiscourse. Moreover, it investigates the functions that the academic book review writers are trying to perform through their writing which are: organizing their discourse, engaging their readers and conveying their attitude.

Understanding the in-depth AI Big Data Analysis application through Diversified Integration and Development of Functional Linguistics

ABSTRACT For promoting functional linguistic system integration, the in-depth application of artificial intelligence-big data information analysis and technological processing has provided the core technical means in recent years. Perhaps, related to artificial intelligence (AI) big data analysis, the multiple integrations of functional linguistics have frequently encountered obstacles in applications. As a result, it has created major challenges for the in-depth development of functional linguistics. The related concepts of functional linguistics development and artificial intelligence are sorted out under this background. On this basis, under the background of AI-big data analysis, the functional linguistic technological integration and internal integration are analyzed. Furthermore, to promote in-depth functional linguistics development, this study provides several suggestions, such as optimizing a distributed cluster environment, building a functional language data platform, adopting models, data-parallel modes, and distributing neural network parallel training. These suggestions provide some reference for theoretical linguistic research and enriching functions. Further put forward several suggestions to promote the in-depth development of functional linguistics, such as building a functional language data platform, optimizing a distributed cluster environment, distributing neural network parallel training, adopting models, and data-parallel modes to promote the in-depth development of functional linguistics, in order to provide some reference for enriching functions and linguistic theoretical research. REFERENCES [1] D. L. Zhang. Exploration on the Development Trend of System Functional Linguistics in 60 Years. Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 50(1):39–50, 2018. [2] H. Jiang and A.G. Zhao. The Generation Background and Academic Inheritance of Functional Grammar Theory and System Functional Linguistics. Foreign Language and Foreign Language Teaching, 31(2):32–37, 2014. [3] X.N. Li and X.Y. Fan. Research on Knowledge Representation Method in System Functional Linguistics. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing (Social Science Edition), 16(3):26–30, 2015. [4] G.Z. Xiao. Grammatical Events and Semantic Events-Language Research for Artificial Intelligence. Yangtze River Academic, 15(2):82–98, 2020. [5] C.W. Yuan, C.Y. Liu, and S.L. Chang. Correspondence between System Functional Linguistics and Corpus. Foreign Language, 32(1):104–109, 2016. [6] Y.Y. Group Construction in Weibo: A New Perspective of System Functional Linguistics. Dongyue Review, 34(1):187–190, 2013. [7] A.M. The Study of Chinese and Foreign Texts Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics. Language Construction, 61(23):71–72, 2016.

The Analysis of the Thematic Structure of the Standard Arabic Clause: A Special Focus on Verb-initial Structures

The objective of the present paper is to give a detailed presentation of how the thematic structure is expressed in Standard Arabic (SA) and how different it is from that of English language. SA is a language which displays different linguistic properties in comparison to English, the language around which the Systemic Functional Grammar theory (SFG) was first developed (Halliday, 1994). Very few studies have been carried out to study the thematic structure of SA and none of them deals with all types of sentence structures in this language. Abdul-Raof’s study is a case in point (Abdul-Raof, 1998); he is mainly concerned with studying the thematic structure of nominal clauses i.e. clauses starting with nouns, despite the fact that Arabic is a language where VSO structures are frequently used. It is precisely at the level of VSO structures that the analysis of thematic structure in Arabic becomes problematic. Contrary to what previous studies in this area of enquiry say, I will mainly argue that the verb cannot be considered Theme in SA. It is also worth noting that the present work is part of a general endeavour to develop a Systemic Functional Grammar of SA.

Locative Inversion as an Alternation Phenomenon in Setswana: The Case of Lexical Functional Grammar Theory

The paper has examined locative inversion constructions in Setswana, showing that the pre-posed locative phrase in these constructions is not the subject as it is viewed by other linguists in the literature. It has been argued, in this paper, that locative phrase occurs in the sentence initial position to perform the topic function which sets the scene for the focused noun phrase that alternates with it (locative phrase). The analysis has been achieved through information structure approach, showing the locative phrase that occurs in sentence initial position is a discourse phenomenon showing given information, and that the focused post-verbal noun phrase is new information that is emphasised on. Also, an appeal is made to Lexical Functional Grammar Approach to explain different ways of representing syntactic structures such as constituent structure and the functional structure.