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Review article published In: Interpersonal Meaning: Systemic Functional Linguistics perspectives
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[Functions of Language 25:1] 2018
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Introduction

Interpersonal meaning

Systemic Functional Linguistics perspectives

 | University of Sydney
Published online: 10 August 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.17018.mar
Abstract
This introduction comprises four main sections. Section 1 introduces the overall theoretical architecture of Systemic Functional Linguistics (hereafter SFL) by way of contextualising the focus on interpersonal grammar in this special issue. Section 2 looks in more detail at the interpersonal discourse semantics underlying this work, briefly introducing the systems of negotiation and appraisal realised through interpersonal grammar. Section 3 turns to the concept of grammatical metaphor, a concept which bears critically on the realisation relationship between interpersonal discourse semantics and lexicogrammar in SFL. Section 4 comments on the challenge of intradisciplinary dialogue.
Article outline
  • 1.Systemic Functional Linguistics and interpersonal meaning
  • 2.The discourse semantics of interpersonal meaning in SFL
  • 3.The concept of interpersonal grammatical metaphor in SFL
  • 4.Intradisciplinarity
  • Note
  • References
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