Systemic Functional Linguistics
Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a framework for analyzing language developed by Michael Halliday, viewing language as a system of meaning-making choices where speakers select from available options to express meanings. The approach emphasizes the relationship between language form and social context, analyzing how register (field, tenor, mode) shapes linguistic choices and how language constructs meaning through metafunctional systems (ideational, interpersonal, textual). SFL is widely applied to discourse analysis, language education, and computational linguistics.
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- Halliday, M. A. K. (1994). An Introduction to Functional Grammar (2nd ed.). London: Edward Arnold. · URL
- Halliday, M. A. K., & Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (2004). An Introduction to Functional Grammar (3rd ed.). London: Routledge. · DOI 10.4324/9780203783771
- Eggins, S. (2004). An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics (2nd ed.). London: Continuum. · URL
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