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An Introduction to Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics

Numerous theories have been successful in accounting for aspects of language. One of the most substantial theories is Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (often SFL), which has been employed in the literature on linguistics and applied linguistics. This paper aims to introduce Halliday’s SFL with a focus on an overview of SFL as a linguistic tradition…

January 3, 20220Comments

ByWael Abdulrahman Almurashi

Discourse Analysis Linguistics

Epistemic Context Analysis

Abstract Resumen Within a general theory of communicative contexts and their influence on the structures, production and comprehension of discourse, this article focuses on the crucial, but often ignored, role of the knowledge of speakers about the knowledge of the recipients, earlier studied as ‘common ground’. For communicative contexts to influence the structures…

January 2, 20220Comments

ByTeun A. van Dijk

Linguistics Semiotics

Linguistics of Parole / Discourse / Usage[1]

Linguistics today is generally interested in language use; That is, Parole and more precisely discourse[2]. We could list, for instance: - Sociolinguistics: This is one of the disciplines that take into consideration the social dimension of language. The first form of sociolinguistics explored variations and how speech changes from an individual/group/community to another by observing…

December 17, 20210Comments

BySid Ahmed KHETTAB

Linguistics Semiotics

Ferdinand de Saussure’s Linguistics

Founding Distinctions of Linguistics 1. Langue and Parole Langue (language) is a system of signs that is abstract and shared by society. And like any system, it is a code. Parole (Speech) is the individual exploitation of this latter. It is, therefore, concrete and individual. To understand the relationship between Langue and Parole, simply imagine…

December 17, 20210Comments

BySid Ahmed KHETTAB