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Interpersonal Meaning: Systemic Functional Linguistics perspectivesEdited by J.R. Martin
[Functions of Language 25:1] 2018
► pp. 2–19
Edited by J.R. Martin
[Functions of Language 25:1] 2018
► pp. 2–19
Introduction
Interpersonal meaning
Systemic Functional Linguistics perspectives
This introduction comprises four main sections. Section 1 introduces the overall theoretical architecture of Systemic Functional Linguistics (hereafter SFL) by way of contextualising the focus on interpersonal grammar in this special issue. Section 2 looks in more detail at the interpersonal discourse semantics underlying this work, briefly introducing the systems of negotiation and appraisal realised through interpersonal grammar. Section 3 turns to the concept of grammatical metaphor, a concept which bears critically on the realisation relationship between interpersonal discourse semantics and lexicogrammar in SFL. Section 4 comments on the challenge of intradisciplinary dialogue.
Article outline
- 1.Systemic Functional Linguistics and interpersonal meaning
- 2.The discourse semantics of interpersonal meaning in SFL
- 3.The concept of interpersonal grammatical metaphor in SFL
- 4.Intradisciplinarity
- Note
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