J.R. Martin

List of John Benjamins publications in which J.R. Martin is involved.

Book series

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture

General Editor: Jo Angouri and Johann Wolfgang Unger

ISSN 1569-9463

Journals

Edited by J. Lachlan Mackenzie, Elena Smirnova and Sumin Zhao

ISSN 0929-998X | E‑ISSN 1569‑9765

The Social Semiotics Forum

Edited by Xingwei Miao and Akila Sellami Baklouti

ISSN 2589-7233 | E‑ISSN 2589‑7241

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Interpersonal Meaning: Systemic Functional Linguistics perspectives

Edited by J.R. Martin

Special issue of Functions of Language 25:1 (2018) v, 204 pp.

Language Typology: A functional perspective

Edited by Alice Caffarel-Cayron, J.R. Martin and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

This book is intended as a systemic functional contribution to language typology both for those who would like to understand and describe particular languages against the background of generalizations about a wide range of languages and also for those who would like to develop typological accounts… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 253] 2004. xiv, 702 pp.

Re/reading the past: Critical and functional perspectives on time and value

Edited by J.R. Martin and Ruth Wodak

Re/reading the Past is concerned with the discourses of history, from the complementary perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The papers in the book stress the discursive construction of the past, focussing on the different social narratives… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 8] 2003. vi, 277 pp.

English Text: System and structure

J.R. Martin

This book is a comprehensive introduction to text forming resources in English, along with practical procedures for analysing English texts and relating them to their contexts of use. It has been designed to complement functional grammars of English, building on the generation of discourse analysis… read more

[Not in series, 59] 1992. xiv, 620 pp.

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Martin, J.R. and Priscilla Cruz 2024 Acknowledging dispossession: A CDA/PDA perspective on discourse dealing with unceded land Moving towards Peace, Compassion and Empathy through Semiotic Enquiry: Special issue of the Journal Language, Context and Text 6:1 (2024), Thomson, Elizabeth A., Awni Etaywe, Ingrid Wijeyewardene and Penny Wheeler (eds.), pp. 60–87 | Article

This paper illustrates what can be revealed by a linguistic analysis of the discourse strategies deployed in a bilingual text acknowledging the dispossession of Indigenous peoples in Mindanao (Philippines). The analysis draws on systemic functional linguistics (SFL) descriptions of English,… read more

Martin, J.R. and Y. J. Doran 2023 Structure markers: A subjacency duplex analysis Language, Context and Text 5:1, pp. 16–48 | Article

In this paper we revisit the association of types of structure with modes of meaning in systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Focusing mainly on nominal group grammar, we argue that the association of experiential structure with non-recursive systems realised by multivariate structures and… read more

Martin, J.R., Yanmei Gao, Hanbing Li, Chengfang Song and Minglong Wei 2021 Martin on discourse semantics, genre, educational linguistics Language, Context and Text 3:2, pp. 367–387 | Article

J. R. Martin is a leading scholar who has greatly developed the theoretical framework of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) over the past four decades. Some of these contributions, such as the systems of discourse semantics, the appraisal framework and genre relations have been widely applied… read more

Martin, J.R. 2019 Once more with feeling: Negotiating evaluation Language, Context and Text 1:2, pp. 234–259 | Article

If we follow one line of development in systemic functional linguistics (SFL), from Halliday & Hasan (1976) through Martin (1992) to Martin & White (2005), we arrive at a model of discourse semantics with six major systems: ideation and connexion (ideational meaning), identification and… read more

Martin, J.R. 2018 Interpersonal meaning: Systemic Functional Linguistics perspectives Interpersonal Meaning: Systemic Functional Linguistics perspectives, Martin, J.R. (ed.), pp. 2–19 | Review article

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… read more

Martin, J.R. and Priscilla Cruz 2018 Interpersonal grammar of Tagalog: A Systemic Functional Linguistics perspective Interpersonal Meaning: Systemic Functional Linguistics perspectives, Martin, J.R. (ed.), pp. 54–96 | Article

In this paper the interpersonal grammar of Tagalog is explored from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Following a brief metafunctional profile of Tagalog grammar, a framework for interpreting the discourse function of Tagalog clauses is introduced – exchange structure.… read more

Caffarel-Cayron, Alice, J.R. Martin and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen 2004 1. Introduction: Systemic functional typology Language Typology: A functional perspective, Caffarel-Cayron, Alice, J.R. Martin and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen (eds.), pp. 1–76 | Article

Martin, J.R. 2004 5. Metafunctional profile of the grammar of Tagalog Language Typology: A functional perspective, Caffarel-Cayron, Alice, J.R. Martin and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen (eds.), pp. 255–304 | Article

Martin, J.R. 2003 Preface Grammatical Metaphor: Views from systemic functional linguistics, Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie, Miriam Taverniers and Louise J. Ravelli (eds.), pp. 1–3 | Preface

Martin, J.R. 2003 Making history: Grammar for interpretation Re/reading the past: Critical and functional perspectives on time and value, Martin, J.R. and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 19–57 | Article

Martin, J.R. and Ruth Wodak 2003 Introduction Re/reading the past: Critical and functional perspectives on time and value, Martin, J.R. and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Miscellaneous

Martin, J.R. 1999 2. Modelling context: a crooked path of progress in contextual linguistics Text and Context in Functional Linguistics, Ghadessy, Mohsen (ed.), pp. 25–62 | Article

Martin, J.R. and Guenther Plum 1997 Construing Experience: Some Story Genres Oral Versions of Personal Experience: Three decades of narrative analysis, pp. 299–308 | Article

Martin, J.R. 1996 10. Metalinguistic Diversity: The case from case Functional Descriptions: Theory in practice, Hasan, Ruqaiya †, Carmel Cloran and David Butt (eds.), pp. 325–374 | Article

Martin, J.R. 1995 Logical meaning, interdependency and the linking particle {na/-ng} in Tagalog Functions of Language 2:2, pp. 189–228 | Article

In this paper the linking particle {nal-ng} in Tagalog is interpreted from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics. It is suggested that Tagalog's deployment of this particle to depend one unit on another across a range of grammatical environments argues for a grammatical theory in which… read more

Martin, J.R. 1992 Macro-Proposals: Meaning by Degree Discourse Description: Diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text, Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 359–396 | Article

Martin, J.R. 1988 Grammatical conspiracies in tagalog: Family, face and fate — with regard to benjamin lee whorf Linguistics in a Systemic Perspective, Benson, James D., Michael J. Cummings and William S. Greaves (eds.), pp. 243–300 | Article