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Functional Grammar Made EasyCourse ObjectivesThis course is designed to provide undergraduate students and those who are interested in applied linguistics and language use to understand Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) and its application in analyzing authentic texts and language use in general. By studying SFG, you will gain valuable insights into the structure, functions and organization of language in written and spoken texts.You will also have applications of the SFG model to different registers (Genre)/ Text types.
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The course is composed of three sessions:
Session One:
1.Why Study Functional Grammar2.Introducing SFG model of text analysis + Exercise3.What is register (Genre)? + Application4.Halliday’s three metafunctions and their lexicogrammatical features.5.Ideational Metafunction (Field)1.Processes, participants & circumstance2.Form versus function (Quiz 5: Circumstance or NP)3.Agency and Affectedness (Quiz 6: Process Types 1)4.Semantic properties of verbs5.Model analysis of Agency and affectedness in news text.6.Critical Discourse Analysis: Transtivity & Ideology -
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Session Two:
2. Interpersonal Metafunction (Tenor)
1. tenor in spoken and written texts
2. Types of evaluation (categorical and noncategorical)
3. Appraisal (Affect, judgement & appreciation) (2/Quiz 3: Appraisal patterns)
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Session Three:
3. Textual Metafunction (Mode)
1. packaging of information
2. organizing information in writing and speech
4. SFL Model all together
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Powerpoint 2007 presentation
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