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Systemic Functional Linguistics and the Individual book cover

1st Edition

Systemic Functional Linguistics and the Individual

Edited By Jamie Williams Copyright 2027
216 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

List of Figures

List of Contributors

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

Biography

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.

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