{"title":"The embodiment of language","authors":"A. Korner","doi":"10.1075/langct.21010.kor","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/langct.21010.kor","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this paper an understanding of psychotherapeutic conversation is outlined emphasising whole-body functioning.\u0000 The underpinning of conversation by both Central and Autonomic Nervous Systems (CNS & ANS) and evolutionary developments that\u0000 support social engagement and language are considered. An idea will be taken up that for psychotherapy, language needs to be\u0000 understood within each patient as more than meets the eye, rather than less, providing a potential for exchanges in the\u0000 therapeutic conversation that enhance the growth of self for each individual. The notion of culminative patterns\u0000 of communicative interaction speaks to this growth and the enhancement of a sense of meaning in personal contexts. This goes\u0000 beyond an analytic approach, implying synthesis, integration and growing coherence over time. Human development is towards social\u0000 engagement, building upon a capacity for relations that are rewarding to the parties involved (Meares 2016). The problem of responding to embodied communication in psychotherapy is considered in relation to\u0000 moments of meeting, seen as mutative in therapy. Each person is an embodied text with potential for elaboration,\u0000 re-shaping and discovery. Clinical illustrations are provided, demonstrating a linguistic model of therapeutic growth and an\u0000 experimental method that provides a window onto the exchange characteristics of language. To close, the problem of systematising\u0000 embodiment and its relation to the conversation is considered, along with the implications for therapy and future research,\u0000 integrating linguistics and interactive functional measures of the body.","PeriodicalId":29846,"journal":{"name":"Language Context and Text-The Social Semiotics Forum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42825026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Martin-Jones & Martin (2017): Researching multilingualism: Critical and ethnographic perspectives & Heller, Pietikäinen & Pujolar (2018): Critical sociolinguistic research methods: Studying language issues that matter","authors":"R. Harman","doi":"10.1075/langct.00038.har","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/langct.00038.har","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29846,"journal":{"name":"Language Context and Text-The Social Semiotics Forum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43601659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Systemic functional linguistics as a resource for teacher education and writing development","authors":"C. Matthiessen, M. Yousefi","doi":"10.1075/langct.20005.mat","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/langct.20005.mat","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article provides an illustrative and necessarily selective review of scholarship in systemic functional linguistics (SFL) since the 1960s, examining two major strands of application within the institution of education: teacher education and\u0000 writing development. We explore properties of SFL that have been significant in this institutional setting, asking: “What are the\u0000 properties of SFL being applied in research in teacher education and writing development?” Five foundational properties emerged\u0000 from the review (i.e. language as meaning-making resource, the cline of instantiation, ontogenesis or the process of learning how\u0000 to mean, the hierarchy of stratification and the spectrum of different metafunctional modes of meaning). From this basis, we\u0000 explicate how SFL-based pedagogies promote language learning and literacy practices in these educational domains. The article ends\u0000 by suggesting how further explorations can be undertaken to enhance understanding of the potential of this social semiotic\u0000 approach and its applied contributions to solving real-world problems.","PeriodicalId":29846,"journal":{"name":"Language Context and Text-The Social Semiotics Forum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47441578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Teruya, Wu & Slade (2021): Systemic functional linguistics, Part 1, volume 1 in the collected works of C. M. I. M. Matthiessen","authors":"Derek S. Irwin","doi":"10.1075/langct.00037.irw","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/langct.00037.irw","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29846,"journal":{"name":"Language Context and Text-The Social Semiotics Forum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47951852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Construing FL writers’ meaning-making choices in a historical recount genre in Spanish","authors":"Elena Sheldon","doi":"10.1075/langct.21005.she","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/langct.21005.she","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study reports on a four-semester teaching programme for foreign language (FL) intermediate writing abilities\u0000 in Spanish to be implemented in educational practice. The study conducts qualitative analysis, drawing on systemic functional\u0000 linguistics (SFL), of developmental changes in twenty undergraduate, Spanish Level 4 students, based on their performance of, and\u0000 comments on, pre- and post-instructional written tasks, focusing on meaning-making choices in the construction of a historical\u0000 recount genre over one semester of instruction at an Australian university. Responding to the need for research on academic\u0000 writing in FL, the paper shows that SFL facilitates students’ understanding of writing development in an FL as they explore\u0000 textual, ideational and interpersonal meanings in conjunction with required lexicogrammatical choices to fulfil the rhetorical\u0000 demands of this genre.","PeriodicalId":29846,"journal":{"name":"Language Context and Text-The Social Semiotics Forum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46028597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lessons learnt applying a systemic functional model to teaching and learning in school contexts over the last thirty years","authors":"Brian Dare, John Polias","doi":"10.1075/langct.21013.dar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/langct.21013.dar","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In this paper we look back at our work over the last thirty years as education consultants in a range of educational contexts in which we sought to promote an explicit, language-based approach to teaching and learning. We trace our pathway from the earliest days of meeting systemic functional theory and its potential application in education to recent times where we now are able to offer a suite of professional development programmes designed to build the capacity of teachers and students to understand how language works to make meaning. We reflect on the many challenges of re-contextualising such an elaborate model of language in educational contexts: challenges that embrace the pedagogical, the political and the logistical among others. The intent is to highlight the affordances we have seen while working closely with teachers over the years in the hope that others will be inspired to continue the work.","PeriodicalId":29846,"journal":{"name":"Language Context and Text-The Social Semiotics Forum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45212537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some linguistic features of the physical sciences research article before, during and after the First World\u0000 War","authors":"David Banks","doi":"10.1075/langct.20011.ban","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/langct.20011.ban","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Previous studies suggest that in times of great turbulence scientific writing becomes more conservative. In order\u0000 to see whether this is true of the period of the First World War, a sample of research articles in the field of the physical\u0000 sciences for the years 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930 was studied. Features relating to process types, passives, first person pronouns,\u0000 themes and nominalisation were considered. This showed that while there was little evidence for the initial conjecture, it was\u0000 frequently the case that the direction of change altered during the period 1910 to 1920. This change was often maintained in the\u0000 following decade. Thus, there are significant changes occurring in the period 1910 to 1920 which warrant further study.","PeriodicalId":29846,"journal":{"name":"Language Context and Text-The Social Semiotics Forum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44005453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}