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Article In: SFL Appliability, Visibility and Accessibility
Edited by Claudia E. Stoian, Jorge Arús-Hita and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
[Language, Context and Text 7:2] 2025
► pp. 328–355

SFL textual metafunction perspectives on the BUAP Code of Conduct and Ethics

ORCiD logo with link | Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México
ORCiD logo with link | Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México
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Abstract
This article presents an analysis of the code of conduct and ethics of the second most prestigious public university in Mexico, the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP). These regulations are meant to officially represent the ethical stance of the entire university with more than 95,000 members. The study aims to identify prevalent textual characteristics of the document through a systemic functional linguistic (SFL) analysis of the textual metafunction, including the identification of tendencies in Marked and Unmarked Themes and MOOD (. 2014. Halliday’s introduction to functional grammar (4th edition). London: Routledge. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar). The findings could provide an insight into the nature of such regulatory texts as well as providing guidance towards their improvement as the university moves towards the new 2030 Agenda of the United Nations (Naciones Unidas. 2018. La Agenda 2030 y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible: Una oportunidad para América Latina y el Caribe [The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: An opportunity for Latin America and the Caribbean]. [URL]. (10 February, 2025.)).
Article outline
  • 1.Introducing the study
  • 2.From semiology to SFL
  • 3.Metafunctions
  • 4.The textual metafunction
    • 4.1Theme
    • 4.2Classification of themes
      • 4.2.1Marked theme vs unmarked theme
      • 4.2.2Macro-themes vs thematised values
  • 5.Context
  • 6.BUAP’s code of conduct and ethics
  • 7.Research design
  • 8.Results
  • 9.Discussion
  • 10.Conclusions
  • References
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