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| Systemic Functional Analysis× | Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies× | |
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| Field | Linguistics | Linguistics |
| Family | Process / pipeline | Process / pipeline |
| Year of origin≠ | 1985 | 2004 |
| Originator≠ | M. A. K. Halliday (analytic procedure within Systemic Functional Linguistics) | Alan Partington and colleagues |
| Type≠ | Qualitative functional analysis of texts via metafunctions | Mixed-methods corpus-and-discourse analytic approach |
| Seminal source≠ | Halliday, M. A. K., & Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (2014). Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 9781444146608 | Partington, A., Duguid, A., & Taylor, C. (2013). Patterns and Meanings in Discourse: Theory and Practice in Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS). John Benjamins. ISBN: 9789027203885 |
| Aliases | SFL Text Analysis, Metafunctional Analysis, Functional Grammar Analysis | CADS, Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis, Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis |
| Related | 4 | 4 |
| Summary≠ | Systemic functional analysis is the procedure of analyzing texts through the lens of M. A. K. Halliday's systemic functional linguistics, which holds that every clause simultaneously makes three kinds of meaning. The analyst works through a text clause by clause, examining its ideational meaning (who does what to whom, through the transitivity system of process types and participants), its interpersonal meaning (how the clause enacts a relationship, through mood and modality), and its textual meaning (how it is organized as a message, through theme and rheme). These three metafunctions together let the analyst show, in fine grammatical detail, how a text construes experience, negotiates social roles, and packages information. | Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) is a mixed-methods approach that combines the quantitative power of corpus linguistics with the interpretive depth of discourse analysis to investigate how meanings, evaluations, and ideologies are constructed across large collections of text. Pioneered by Alan Partington and colleagues, CADS uses corpus techniques such as keyness, collocation, and concordancing to identify patterns no analyst could find by reading alone, then 'shunts' back to close qualitative reading to interpret what those patterns mean in their discursive context. |
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