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Effect of Indigenous Language Interference on the Yoruba People Proficiency in English: A Syntactic Approach 土著语言干扰对约鲁巴人英语熟练程度的影响:一个句法分析

International Journal of Systemic Functional Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-12-14 DOI: 10.55637/ijsfl.3.1.2413.10-21

Kolawole Mathew Ogundipe

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引用次数: 0

An Analysis of Logical Relations in Academic IELTS Sample Essays 学术性雅思样文逻辑关系分析

International Journal of Systemic Functional Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-12-14 DOI: 10.55637/ijsfl.3.1.2641.37-43

Trung Nguyen, Hoa Nguyen Thi Quynh

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引用次数: 1

The Subjectivity and Objectivity Construction in Trade War Reports via Transitivity System 及物性体系下贸易战报道的主客观建构

International Journal of Systemic Functional Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-12-14 DOI: 10.55637/ijsfl.3.1.2330.1-9

Huixian Cui

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引用次数: 1

Transitivity Process in Frozen Movie: A Study of Systemic Functional Grammar 《冰雪奇缘》中的及物过程:系统功能语法研究

International Journal of Systemic Functional Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-23 DOI: 10.22225/IJSFL.2.2.1480.79-85

Meltarina Sihura

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引用次数: 11

Textual Metafunction in Donald Trump’s Speech “Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital” 特朗普“承认耶路撒冷为以色列首都”演讲中的文本元功能

International Journal of Systemic Functional Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-23 DOI: 10.22225/IJSFL.2.2.1321.55-60

M. Umiyati

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引用次数: 8

Patterns of Meaning in Selected Nigerian Military and Paramilitary Logos: A Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Approach 尼日利亚军事和准军事标志的意义模式:系统功能多模态语篇分析

International Journal of Systemic Functional Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-23 DOI: 10.22225/IJSFL.2.2.1415.61-70

Festus Moses Onipede

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引用次数: 0

Interpersonal Function in Paul Biya’s 2018 French Inaugural Speech and its English Translation 保罗·比亚2018年法语就职演说中的人际功能及其英译

International Journal of Systemic Functional Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-23 DOI: 10.22225/IJSFL.2.2.1371.47-54

Vincent Mbahawa Chefor

引用次数: 7

Readability of Reading Texts in Student’s Handbook at The Ninth Grade of SMP Negeri 1 Telukdalam 小学九年级学生手册阅读文本的可读性

International Journal of Systemic Functional Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-23 DOI: 10.22225/IJSFL.2.2.1420.71-78

Thomas Alfa Edison Telaumbanua, M. Umiyati

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引用次数: 1

The Construction of Field in Science Popularization Stories 论科普故事中的场域建构

International Journal of Systemic Functional Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-05-17 DOI: 10.22225/IJSFL.2.1.669.1-13

Florencia Figini, Valentina Roccia, Norma Susana Rezzano

{"title":"The Construction of Field in Science Popularization Stories","authors":"Florencia Figini, Valentina Roccia, Norma Susana Rezzano","doi":"10.22225/IJSFL.2.1.669.1-13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22225/IJSFL.2.1.669.1-13","url":null,"abstract":"Systemic Functional Linguistics proposes a model of language that views texts as context-situated social activities. Context is modeled into two levels: context of culture which accounts for variation according to genre, and context of situation which accounts for variations according to three dimensions: field, tenor and mode. The register variable field, understood as the way in which a particular domain of experience is construed and organized through ideational meanings, is explored in a corpus of science popularization stories. The aim is to understand how science as a social activity is represented in these texts and to gain insights on how this approach can be useful in English as a Foreign Language reading courses in university environments. The data collected From a corpus of 60 popularization articles from the science popularization website Science Daily, including 30 stories extracted from the subsection Fitness in the Health section and 30 from the Chemistry Section, we randomly selected 10 stories from each field. One component of the Rhetorical Structure (Presentation of the Popularized Research) is selected to identify entities, activities and qualities through an analysis of Transitivity. Taxonomies are constructed related to the following entities: researchers, institutions, research reports, and research. The results show how the fields of doing science and reporting science are construed in this component through the description of those entities and the activities they are involved in. Pedagogical implications are suggested in relation to the design of pedagogical materials in EFL university reading courses.","PeriodicalId":378652,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systemic Functional Linguistics","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133951298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Readability of the Transactional Texts in Bahasa Inggris Textbook for Grade X 马来文十年级教材中事务性篇章的可读性

International Journal of Systemic Functional Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-05-17 DOI: 10.22225/IJSFL.2.1.996.33-42

E. Sujatna

{"title":"Readability of the Transactional Texts in Bahasa Inggris Textbook for Grade X","authors":"E. Sujatna","doi":"10.22225/IJSFL.2.1.996.33-42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22225/IJSFL.2.1.996.33-42","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims are lexical density and grammatical intricacy of the transactional texts in Bahasa Inggris as one of the English textbooks for senior high students (grade X) in Indonesia. The method applied is qualitative research method. The study supported by three methods in determining readability as proposed by Halliday (1985, 1994, 2004), Ure (1971), and a text analyzer adapted from www.usingenglish.com as the website that provided the tool. The data are taken from the textbooks as transactional texts. The texts obtained are six transactional texts. The results of the study have shown several valuable insights. Firstly, the transactional text that has the highest number of words (530 words) containing highest number of sentences could be categorized into the spoken text (lexical density= 26.44) and the level is under Easy Reading Range (Fog Index = 4.23) as described in T6. Secondly, the total unique words in transactional text has relation with hard words, lexical density and Fog Index as described in the T2. Thirdly, the lowest number of words could relate to the unique words and total number of sentences (as seen in T4). To choose the transactional text given as the material in Bahasa Inggris, it is suggested that the writer of the textbooks should be more thoughtful in deciding the transactional texts level chosen since the data shows that the level of the text is various (Fog Index 4.23 as the lowest – 10.25 as the highest) and the average transactional text level is 6.7.","PeriodicalId":378652,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systemic Functional Linguistics","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127843786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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