Systemic Functional Linguistics and the Individual

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-37817-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Functional Linguistics

Systemic Functional Linguistics and the Individual takes as its central point that language should be studied as a social semiotic. The focus on language as a reflection of society has meant that traditionally there has been less focus upon language as a reflection of the individual in work within this linguistic framework. This collection brings together contributions from researchers who all discuss the role of the individual in systemic functional linguistic application and theory. The chapters in this volume either discuss cognitive factors in systemic functional language study or discuss meaning making at an individual instead of solely a collective level. This is illustrated through applications to education, AI, translation, and identity construction alongside more theoretical discussions.

This volume will be of interest to researchers in functional linguistics, psychosocial theories of language and individual variation in language. This collection will show researchers advances that have been made in incorporating alterative viewpoints and less frequently discussed issues within systemic functional linguistics. In doing so, it hopes to inspire further work in similar areas.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Jamie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Placing the individual in a social semiotic Jamie Williams, 2. A person-centric view of multimodal language in context
Rebekah Wegener, 3. An empirical investigation into the relationship between process type and situation type Alex Carr, Lucy Chrispin and Lise Fontaine, 4. Theory, Cognition, and Explanation in Systemic Functional Linguistics Jamie Williams, 5. Intersubjectivity in CLIL: How can the outside become the inside? Anne McCabe and Rachel Whittaker, 6. Assessing Writing as Individual Practice: where system, theory, instance and practice precariously meet Derek Irwin and Liu Ning, 7.Individual freedom vs. systemic and generic constraints in translation: Experiential choices in a corpus of English-Arabic Covid-related texts Akila Sellami Baklouti and Leila Mahfoudhi, 8. Identity from a metafunctionally diversified perspective: enacting personae in a conversational podcast Margarita Vidal Lizama, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jamie Williams is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University. His main research interests concern the place of cognition and psychology within Systemic Functional Linguistic theory and application.