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Registerial cartography is the activity of systematically describing the registers that make up a language — with register in its original sense of a functional variety of a language, i.e. of the adaptation of the meaning-making resources of a language according to context of use. A register map of a language would thus show its composition of regi...
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... At the same time, linguistic analysis of traditional narratives can show how they portray an outdated world view that is no longer sustainable (cf. Matthiessen, 2015). The five strategies surround the enactment of positive and constructive meanings as opposed to negative and destructive ones in traditional climate communication. ...
... However, to reveal the deeper or more implicit patterns embodied in the cryptogrammar of English and other languages, we still need to rely on manual text analysis, since automatic analysis cannot yet reach this domain within lexicogrammar. As illustrated by Matthiessen (2015), such manual analysis can reveal world views and cosmologies that are not stated anywhere in particular but which emerge subliminally clause by clause. ...
Three decades ago, M. A. K. Halliday, the founder of systemic functional linguistics (SFL), presented a paper to AILA in Greece entitled 'New Ways of Meaning: A Challenge to Applied Linguistics' (Halliday, 1990), which introduced the notion of an ecological study of language (Fill and Mühlhäusler, 2001). In this seminal paper, Halliday emphasizes that 'language does not passively reflect reality; language actively creates reality' (cf. Halliday and Matthiessen, 1999) and that 'lexi-cogrammar… shapes experience and transforms our perceptions into meanings' (Halliday, 1990: 65). He identifies three 'problematic spheres' as foreseeable challenges language planning, the register of scientific discourse and of language and prejudice, involving the deployment of resources within the system that constructs sexism, racism, growthism, and classism; and highlights the role of future applied linguists-'to use our theory of grammar… as a metatheory for understanding how grammar functions as a theory of experience' (1990: 69) and 'to learn to educate five billion children … at such a time it is as well to reflect on how language construes the world' (1990: 91), one that contains numerous ecosystems essential to the human survival.
... As was said before, the probabilities of each of the alternative choices in a specific system are contextually constrained. One of the most important variables that influence lexigrammatical selections is that of register (Halliday and Matthiessen, 1999;Matthiessen, 2015). Register is defined as 'the configuration of semantic resources that a member of a culture typically associates with a situation type' and involves the contextual elements of field, tenor and mode (Halliday, 1975, p. 182). ...
... / we hope that we will never go to war again. As no-negation frequently appears in the context of grammatical metaphors, this particular register is likely to exhibit a higher level of the verbal processes that are characteristic of expounding registers such as academic discourse, in which grammatical metaphor is very frequent (Matthiessen, 2015). This renders the contrast between the processes used in no-negation and those in not-negation worthy of analysis. ...
... Besides, the frequency of material processes has been found to be very sensitive to the register type, ranging from 32% to 48% across different registers (Matthiessen, 2015). More specifically, in the study of political speeches, material processes seem to be more recurrent than in other registers (Durán, 2008; Kazemian and Hashemi, 2014;Adjei, Ewusi-Mensah and Okoh, 2015;Adjei and Ewusi-Mensah, 2016), wherein material processes range from 39% to 59%. ...
This volume deals with the pragmatic dimension of negations and is oriented towards empirical studies of negatives’ meanings and functions in media and public discourses. Negation is one of our most central phenomena in human language and we use it daily for a vast range of different purposes: for rejection, denial and for expressing non-existence. Negation is certainly one of the most multidimensional and complex units in language, semantically, cognitively and syntactically, as well as from a functional, pragmatic, perspective. Depending of the theoretical framework, sentence negation in particular has been identified as a modal operator, a truth-value operator, a rhetoric device, a figure of thought, a polarity item and a marker of linguistic polyphony and as a linguistic unit with a variety of discursive and contextual meanings. There remain, nevertheless, a large number of unsolved questions regarding negative forms of expressions and negative functions within specific languages, within different social settings and throughout the languages of the world. Thus, by bringing together scholars from different countries, with studies on different languages this volume aims to shed light and contribute to new knowledge about the forms and functionality of this universal phenomenon. Linguists and pragmaticiens generally agree that the use of negatives escapes logic and pure semantic description and is therefore best analysed with tools from cognitive and pragmatic theories. Similar themes connected to negatives approached from different perspectives and examined in different languages offer a contrastive reading that actually enlarges the spectra of new knowledge presented in the books’s chapters. Based on hypotheses within pragmatics and discourse analysis, the main assumption is here that forms of expressing negatives emerge and adjust constantly and in accordance with the cultural domain and the social setting of their appearance. This is why this volume focuses on the functions of negative expressions in specific domains and types of discourses.
... As was said before, the probabilities of each of the alternative choices in a specific system are contextually constrained. One of the most important variables that influence lexigrammatical selections is that of register (Halliday and Matthiessen, 1999;Matthiessen, 2015). Register is defined as 'the configuration of semantic resources that a member of a culture typically associates with a situation type' and involves the contextual elements of field, tenor and mode (Halliday, 1975, p. 182). ...
... / we hope that we will never go to war again. As no-negation frequently appears in the context of grammatical metaphors, this particular register is likely to exhibit a higher level of the verbal processes that are characteristic of expounding registers such as academic discourse, in which grammatical metaphor is very frequent (Matthiessen, 2015). This renders the contrast between the processes used in no-negation and those in not-negation worthy of analysis. ...
... Besides, the frequency of material processes has been found to be very sensitive to the register type, ranging from 32% to 48% across different registers (Matthiessen, 2015). More specifically, in the study of political speeches, material processes seem to be more recurrent than in other registers (Durán, 2008; Kazemian and Hashemi, 2014;Adjei, Ewusi-Mensah and Okoh, 2015;Adjei and Ewusi-Mensah, 2016), wherein material processes range from 39% to 59%. ...
This volume deals with the pragmatic dimension of negations and is oriented towards empirical studies of negatives’ meanings and functions in media and public discourses. Negation is one of our most central phenomena in human language and we use it daily for a vast range of different purposes: for rejection, denial and for expressing non-existence. Negation is certainly one of the most multidimensional and complex units in language, semantically, cognitively and syntactically, as well as from a functional, pragmatic, perspective. Depending of the theoretical framework, sentence negation in particular has been identified as a modal operator, a truth-value operator, a rhetoric device, a figure of thought, a polarity item and a marker of linguistic polyphony and as a linguistic unit with a variety of discursive and contextual meanings. There remain, nevertheless, a large number of unsolved questions regarding negative forms of expressions and negative functions within specific languages, within different social settings and throughout the languages of the world. Thus, by bringing together scholars from different countries, with studies on different languages this volume aims to shed light and contribute to new knowledge about the forms and functionality of this universal phenomenon. Linguists and pragmaticiens generally agree that the use of negatives escapes logic and pure semantic description and is therefore best analysed with tools from cognitive and pragmatic theories. Similar themes connected to negatives approached from different perspectives and examined in different languages offer a contrastive reading that actually enlarges the spectra of new knowledge presented in the books’s chapters. Based on hypotheses within pragmatics and discourse analysis, the main assumption is here that forms of expressing negatives emerge and adjust constantly and in accordance with the cultural domain and the social setting of their appearance. This is why this volume focuses on the functions of negative expressions in specific domains and types of discourses.
... As was said before, the probabilities of each of the alternative choices in a specific system are contextually constrained. One of the most important variables that influence lexigrammatical selections is that of register (Halliday and Matthiessen, 1999;Matthiessen, 2015). Register is defined as 'the configuration of semantic resources that a member of a culture typically associates with a situation type' and involves the contextual elements of field, tenor and mode (Halliday, 1975, p. 182). ...
... / we hope that we will never go to war again. As no-negation frequently appears in the context of grammatical metaphors, this particular register is likely to exhibit a higher level of the verbal processes that are characteristic of expounding registers such as academic discourse, in which grammatical metaphor is very frequent (Matthiessen, 2015). This renders the contrast between the processes used in no-negation and those in not-negation worthy of analysis. ...
... Besides, the frequency of material processes has been found to be very sensitive to the register type, ranging from 32% to 48% across different registers (Matthiessen, 2015). More specifically, in the study of political speeches, material processes seem to be more recurrent than in other registers (Durán, 2008; Kazemian and Hashemi, 2014;Adjei, Ewusi-Mensah and Okoh, 2015;Adjei and Ewusi-Mensah, 2016), wherein material processes range from 39% to 59%. ...
This volume deals with the pragmatic dimension of negations and is oriented towards empirical studies of negatives’ meanings and functions in media and public discourses. Negation is one of our most central phenomena in human language and we use it daily for a vast range of different purposes: for rejection, denial and for expressing non-existence. Negation is certainly one of the most multidimensional and complex units in language, semantically, cognitively and syntactically, as well as from a functional, pragmatic, perspective. Depending of the theoretical framework, sentence negation in particular has been identified as a modal operator, a truth-value operator, a rhetoric device, a figure of thought, a polarity item and a marker of linguistic polyphony and as a linguistic unit with a variety of discursive and contextual meanings. There remain, nevertheless, a large number of unsolved questions regarding negative forms of expressions and negative functions within specific languages, within different social settings and throughout the languages of the world. Thus, by bringing together scholars from different countries, with studies on different languages this volume aims to shed light and contribute to new knowledge about the forms and functionality of this universal phenomenon. Linguists and pragmaticiens generally agree that the use of negatives escapes logic and pure semantic description and is therefore best analysed with tools from cognitive and pragmatic theories. Similar themes connected to negatives approached from different perspectives and examined in different languages offer a contrastive reading that actually enlarges the spectra of new knowledge presented in the books’s chapters. Based on hypotheses within pragmatics and discourse analysis, the main assumption is here that forms of expressing negatives emerge and adjust constantly and in accordance with the cultural domain and the social setting of their appearance. This is why this volume focuses on the functions of negative expressions in specific domains and types of discourses.
... The SFL perspective on registers aims at developing a functional theory of language use. In addition it has inspired empirical studies and applications with mainly qualitative (Hasan, 2015) but also some quantitative approaches (Neumann, 2013;Matthiessen, 2015) . The basic FTM model can serve as a starting point for an empirical operationalization of context. ...
In the present review paper by members of the collaborative research center “Register: Language Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation” (CRC 1412), we assess the pervasiveness of register phenomena across different time periods, languages, modalities, and cultures. We define “register” as recurring variation in language use depending on the function of language and on the social situation. Informed by rich data, we aim to better understand and model the knowledge involved in situation- and function-based use of language register. In order to achieve this goal, we are using complementary methods and measures. In the review, we start by clarifying the concept of “register”, by reviewing the state of the art, and by setting out our methods and modeling goals. Against this background, we discuss three key challenges, two at the methodological level and one at the theoretical level: (1) To better uncover registers in text and spoken corpora, we propose changes to established analytical approaches. (2) To tease apart between-subject variability from the linguistic variability at issue (intra-individual situation-based register variability), we use within-subject designs and the modeling of individuals' social, language, and educational background. (3) We highlight a gap in cognitive modeling, viz. modeling the mental representations of register (processing), and present our first attempts at filling this gap. We argue that the targeted use of multiple complementary methods and measures supports investigating the pervasiveness of register phenomena and yields comprehensive insights into the cross-methodological robustness of register-related language variability. These comprehensive insights in turn provide a solid foundation for associated cognitive modeling.
... Utilizando la lingüística sistémico-funcional, se analizarán las configuraciones de construcción de significación de tres textos multimodales (Lemke, 2002;Painter, Martin, Unsworth, 2012;Ventola, Charles & Kaltenbacher, 2004) con el fin de observar las estructuras discursivas de libros informativos (Garralón, 2013) especializados en la divulgación de la ciencia para públicos infantiles. En particular, se observarán las características metafuncionales de los registros, entendidos como variaciones en las estructuras de construcción de significado que se presentan en el discurso y que son propias de un contexto de producción, así como las redes de registros que aparecen en el género de la divulgación científica (Bhatia, 2014(Bhatia, , 2017Martin & Rose, 2008;Matthiessen, 2015), con el objetivo de construir conocimiento especializado. La aproximación desde la perspectiva metafuncional posibilita el análisis de las estructuras significativas base sobre las que se construyen los textos, y sus reverberaciones en el plano de la construcción de la experiencia en función del contexto en que se presenta. ...
... Palabras clave: análisis sistémicofuncional de imágenes; divulgación científica; registro; género; libros infantiles Abstract Using Systemic-Functional Linguistics, we analize the meaning building configurations of three multimodal texts (Lemke, 2002;Painter, Martin, Unsworth, 2012;Ventola, Charles & Kaltenbacher, 2004) to observe the discursive structures of informative books (Garralón, 2013) specialized in science communication for children. In particular, we observe the metafunctional features of register, understood as variations in the meaning building structures seen in discourse and which are specific to a context of production, as well as the networks of register presented in the science communication genre (Bhatia, 2014(Bhatia, , 2017Martin & Rose, 2008;Matthiessen, 2015), which have the objetive of building specialized knowledge. The approach from a metafunctional perspective enables the analysis of meaningful base structures on which texts are built and their resonance at the level of experience building, according to the context in which its presented. ...
... El objetivo y novedad de esta investigación es buscar la correlación entre el texto bimodal y la construcción de elementos de un conocimiento disciplinar, específi camente, qué estructuras existen entre imágenes y texto para la construcción de un conocimiento especializado en un público lego. En Painter, Martin y Unsworth (2012) se propone una herramienta para el análisis de dicha relación que retoma las bases teóricas propuestas por Halliday y la lingüística sistémico-funcional (Halliday, 1982(Halliday, , 2004Halliday & Martin, 1993;Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014;Matthiessen, 2015). Aunque Painter et al. (2012) se concentran en libros narrativos, su herramienta teórica tiene aplicaciones en el campo del discurso de la divulgación científi ca y el análisis lingüístico-semiótico del discurso en textos informativos. ...
Utilizando la lingüística sistémico-funcional, se analizarán las configuraciones de construcción de significación de tres textos multimodales (Lemke, 2002; Painter, Martin, Unsworth, 2012; Ventola, Charles Kaltenbacher, 2004) con el fin de observar las estructuras discursivas de libros nformativos (Garralón, 2013) especializados en la divulgación de la ciencia para públicos infantiles. En particular, se observarán las características metafuncionales de los registros, entendidos como variaciones en las estructuras de construcción de significado que se presentan en el discurso y que son propias de un contexto de producción, así como las redes de registros que aparecen en el género de la divulgación científica (Bhatia, 2014, 2017; Martin Rose, 2008; Matthiessen, 2015), con el objetivo de construir conocimiento especializado. La aproximación desde la perspectiva metafuncional posibilita el análisis de las estructuras significativas base sobre las que se construyen los textos, y sus reverberaciones en el plano de la construcción de la experiencia en función del contexto en que se presenta.
... For methodological features, we have coded the following items, including method (qualitative or quantitative), language dimensions of SFL, source language, target language, unit of data, mode of data, and text type of the data. With reference to text type, we follow Matthiessen's (2015) framework of the field of activities as shown below: For the high-inference category, we adopt Williams and Chesterman's (2014) mapping of twelve areas in translation research and establish, based on our data, five research themes, as shown in Table 2. Studies that concern general issues in translation. Studies that conduct text analysis without focusing on any text type. ...
... Text types investigated in SFL-minded translation studies Figure 6 shows the text types investigated in SFL-minded translation studies. The text types were coded following Matthiessen's (2015) framework of field of activities. The most examined text type so far has been recreating text, occupying 18% of the total. ...
... Text type coding according to the field of activities defined inMatthiessen (2015) recommending contexts where a course of action is advised for the benefit of the addressee. exploring contexts where public values and ideas are put forward and debated. ...
This paper takes a meta-analysis and synthesis approach to emphasize systemic functional linguistics’ contribution to translation studies. A coding book was designed to analyze 123 studies collected through email inquiry, database search, and manual examination. The paper reports on the substantive features and methodological features of the studies. Content analysis was presented on four major research themes: general translation, genre translation, interpreting, and translation training. After discussing the synthesis results, the paper is concluded with implications for future research.
... Registerial differences appear at different levels of texts -at the clause, paragraph, and text level (Matthiessen, 2015;Matthiessen et al., 2010). The dominant writing tasks in this study are 'recommending' (Sample 1 and Sample 5) and 'sharing' (Sample 10). ...
The present study examines the ways Chinese high school EFL learners organize information in their writing. A class of 50 students at grade 9 from a local high school in Guangzhou, China, were recruited as participants. The students' writing at grade 9 was collected as a corpus, comprising ten writing tasks from different text types. In order to gain a holistic understanding of the organization of information in student writing, the analytical framework of Theme at three levels -- that is, clause, paragraph, and text -- from Derewianka and Jones (2010) was adopted. Findings show that the students have varying degrees of control over information organization at different levels. In particular, the students are not proficient in organizing information at the paragraph level. Findings also show that registerial differences affect the organization of information. The study provides relevant pedagogical implications and recommendations for this group of learners.
... Matthiessen (2014) propõe o mapeamento do registro em diversas línguas, a fim de compreender como os ambientes multilíngues estão sendo 2 Minha tradução de: "What seems important to me, as a linguist and as a teacher, is that we should understand both how the grammar of science works and why it works the way it does. For this we need to examine scientific discourse, analysing the grammar in terms of its different functions […] We can, however, adopt practices that will have an effect on the future; and, as linguists, and discourse specialists, we have a responsibility to look ahead: to assist those who are learning science either in their mother tongue or through some foreign language […]" constituídos, bem como, as relações tipológicas e topológicas estão sendo estabelecidas em um determinado domínio, o que o autor determina como cartografia do registro (registerial cartography), que é uma forma de investigação do potencial de significado de uma ou mais línguas (MATTHIESSEN, 2014;MATTHIESSEN, 2015). ...
O Seminário de Teses e Dissertações (SETED) do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Linguísticos (PosLin) da Faculdade de Letras (FALE) da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) é um evento acadêmico-científico tradicionalmente organizado pela Representação Discente desde 2009, ano de sua primeira edição. O evento tem como função apresentar e debater as pesquisas de mestrado e de doutorado em desenvolvimento no âmbito do Programa, fomentando o intercâmbio entre os discentes e a comunidade científica, visando ao aprimoramento das investigações e à divulgação dos trabalhos realizados pelos integrantes do PosLin.
A edição mais recente do Seminário foi diferente das edições anteriores. Realizado em 03, 04 e 05 de novembro de 2020, o XI SETED foi inovador e desafiador em vários aspectos. Foi inovador porque, devido à pandemia de COVID-19 no Brasil, o Seminário foi realizado inteiramente online, e desafiador porque, com isso, foi necessário coordenar a organização do evento de maneira remota, agenciando uma série de tecnologias digitais em meio a incertezas e dificuldades trazidas pela situação de pandemia.
O XI SETED teve participação recorde de mestrandos e doutorandos do Programa e de mediadores externos. A edição de 2020 contou com 96 inscrições, organizadas em 23 sessões temáticas distribuídas em três dias de programação, com 83 apresentações de pesquisa mediadas por 24 pesquisadores de instituições de ensino superior de quatro regiões do Brasil, que gentilmente se prontificaram a debater as investigações dos discentes inscritos no evento. A contribuição dos professores criou oportunidades de diálogo e troca de experiências de pesquisa, contribuindo, assim, com o desenvolvimento dos pesquisadores em formação.
O diálogo foi inaugurado com a palestra de abertura da Prof. Dra. Maria Angélica Furtado da Cunha, da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, em 03 de novembro, em que a pesquisadora ofereceu ao público uma masterclass sobre linguística baseada em uso. A troca científica do XI SETED foi formalmente concluída com a palestra de encerramento do Prof. Dr. Fábio Bonfim Duarte, do PosLin/UFMG, que divulgou sua pesquisa mais recente, de caráter inédito e inovador, sobre a sintaxe da língua Tenetehára em 05 de novembro.
Além do recorde de inscrições, o XI SETED também teve recorde de público, muito possivelmente pela facilidade criada pela transmissão remota síncrona no YouTube, em que ouvintes puderam acompanhar as apresentações e as palestras, interagindo pela ferramenta de bate-papo dessa plataforma. O evento teve 2.503 visualizações e, com os links de transmissão compartilhados online, os professores do PosLin também seguiram o Seminário, prestigiando os discentes participantes, os mediadores externos e os palestrantes.
O XI SETED marca a primeira publicação de e-book do evento, reunindo um total de 33 trabalhos completos e 02 artigos referentes às palestras de abertura e de encerramento. Essa publicação evidencia a participação dos discentes, o engajamento da Representação Discente, o apoio institucional da Coordenação do PosLin e a disposição dos pareceristas. Agradecemos à Coordenação, aos discentes do PosLin, aos mediadores e pareceristas por seu valioso tempo e envolvimento com o evento e com esta publicação.
... Como forma de contribuir com a Linguística com Potencial de Aplicação (MAHBOOB; KNIGHT, 2008), a Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2014) e Ciências da Saúde (FUNNELL; ANDERSON, 2004, este trabalho apresenta como a cultura do autocuidado em Diabetes Mellitus é construída por meio dos gêneros com o objetivo de descobrir sua composição em relação aos papéis sociais semiotizados e, consequentemente, fornecer conhecimento linguístico para auxiliar no empoderamento do paciente com diabetes através de textos, bem como na compreensão do seu processo de empoderamento por meio do tipo de gênero por ele construído. Matthiessen (2013;2015) e Candlin e Candlin (2003) mostram a necessidade de investigar o discurso da ciência com o propósito de solucionar problemas linguísticos originados da relação entre especialistas e pacientes. Funnell et al. (1991) e Funnell e Anderson (2004) apontam que o empoderamento do paciente com diabetes é imprescindível, uma vez que o mesmo precisa desenvolver iniciativas de autocuidado para conviver com a condição crônica. ...
... For this purpose, this study presents how the self-care culture in Diabetes Mellitus is built through genres in order to discover its composition in relation to social roles and, therefore provide linguistic knowledge to assist patients with diabetes empowerment through texts, as well as in understanding of their empowerment process through genre type constructed by them. Matthiessen (2013;2015) and Candlin and Candlin (2003) 1 Doutoranda (CNPq). ...
... O autor mostra que esse tipo de mapeamento, além de promover a interdisciplinaridade com diversas áreas, permite o desenvolvimento da Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional, sobretudo da linguística institucional. Matthiessen (2013;2015) afirmam que o mapeamento da variável campo -domínio experiencial e processo sociossemiótico − pode ser aplicado à área das Ciências da Saúde e uma das possibilidades seria realizar a descrição dos tipos de textos que paciente e profissional de saúde precisam dominar, isto é, o mapeamento dos determinados registros que constroem essa determinada área. Matthiessen (2014) propõe o mapeamento do registro em diversas línguas, a fim de compreender como os ambientes multilíngues estão sendo 2 Minha tradução de: "What seems important to me, as a linguist and as a teacher, is that we should understand both how the grammar of science works and why it works the way it does. ...
This paper aims at describing how genres realized by the domain of experience self-care in Diabetes Mellitus in covariation with social role variables are developed linguistically. In addition, this research intends at contributing with Appliable Linguistics (MAHBOOB; KNIGHT, 2008), with Systemic-Functional Linguistics (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2014) and Health Sciences (FUNNELL; ANDERSON, 2004, PAGANO, 2015). For this purpose, this study presents how the self-care culture in Diabetes Mellitus is built through genres in order to discover its composition in relation to social roles and, therefore provide linguistic knowledge to assist patients with diabetes empowerment through texts, as well as in understanding of their empowerment process through genre type constructed by them. Matthiessen (2013; 2015) and Candlin and Candlin (2003) show the need to investigate science discourse in order to figure out linguistic problems arising from the
relationship between specialists and patients. Funnell et al. (1991) e Funnell e Anderson (2004) point out that empowerment of patients with diabetes is essential since they need to develop self-care initiatives to live with the chronic condition. Torres et al. (2015) describe empowerment as an action that must be performed through language. In order to solve this problem, genres realized by the domain of experience self-care in Diabetes
Mellitus in covariation with the social roles expert/expert, expert/lay and lay/lay were compiled, analyzed and described in relation to genre type, as well as, in relation to its structure. Results revealed that the selfcare culture based on social roles is constructed through nine types of genres, three for expert/expert, four for expert/lay and two for lay/lay.
