1. DAVID BUTTDAVID BUTT
IDEAS AND PHILOSOPHYIDEAS AND PHILOSOPHY
UNDERLYING THIS BOOKUNDERLYING THIS BOOK
CHAPTER 1CHAPTER 1

2. SOME DIFFERENCES ...SOME DIFFERENCES ...
FORMAL AND TRADITIONAL
APPROACHES
 Study of Morphology and
Syntax
 Analysis of isolated
sentences
 Emphasis on structure
SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL
APPROACH
 Study of Morphology,
Syntax + Semantics and
Pragmatics
 Analysis of texts
 Emphasis on context
and meaning

3. THE INLUENCE OF CONTEXTTHE INLUENCE OF CONTEXT
LANGUAGELANGUAGE
SPOKENSPOKEN
LANGUAGELANGUAGE
WRITTENWRITTEN
LANGUAGELANGUAGE
CONTEXTCONTEXT
LANGUAGELANGUAGE
CHOICECHOICE

4. TEXT IN CONTEXTTEXT IN CONTEXT
TEXTTEXT
CONTEXT OFCONTEXT OF
SITUATIONSITUATION
CONTEXT OF CULTURECONTEXT OF CULTURE
IDEOLOGYIDEOLOGY

5. IDEOLOGYIDEOLOGY
The values we hold (consciously or
unconsciously).
The perspectives acquired through our particular
path through the culture.
It is used to encode particular positions and
values.

6. CONTEXT OF CULTURECONTEXT OF CULTURE
 A genre is a staged, goal oriented, social process
in which speakers engage as members of a given
culture
 There is a schematic structure or generic structure
of each genre
 There exist different realizational patterns for each
step or stage
GENREGENRE

7. CONTEXT OF SITUATIONCONTEXT OF SITUATION
FIELD
TENOR
MODE
•FIELD: WhatWhat thethe
text is abouttext is about
•TENOR: the social rolethe social role
relationship played by therelationship played by the
interactants, their attitudes,interactants, their attitudes,
their evaluation of thetheir evaluation of the
subject matter.subject matter.
MODE: The role ofThe role of
languagelanguage
REGISTERREGISTER
TEXTTEXT

8. FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGEFUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE
FIELDTENOR MODE
Ideational
metafunction
Interpersonal
metafunction
Textual
metafunction
OPEN THE DOOROPEN THE DOOR
CAN YOU OPEN THE DOOR, PLEASE?CAN YOU OPEN THE DOOR, PLEASE?

9. LEVELS OF LANGUAGELEVELS OF LANGUAGE
SYSTEMS OFSYSTEMS OF
MEANINGMEANING
SYSTEMS OFSYSTEMS OF
WORDINGWORDING
SYSTEMS OFSYSTEMS OF
SOUNDS, WRITING,SOUNDS, WRITING,
GESTUREGESTURE
EXTRA-EXTRA-
LINGUISTICLINGUISTIC
LEVELSLEVELS
LINGUISTICLINGUISTIC
LEVELSLEVELS

10. SYTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICSSYTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS
 (SFG) A set of resources for describing, interpreting
and making meaning.
 (David Butt)
 LANGUAGE is a SEMIOTIC SYSTEM: a system
organised in sub-systems, set of choices.
 (Suzanne Eggins)
TO BE CONTINUED …TO BE CONTINUED …

11. TEXTTEXT
 A piece of language in use i.e. LANGUAGE THAT ISLANGUAGE THAT IS
FUNCTIONAL.FUNCTIONAL.
 It has:
 TEXTURE.TEXTURE. The way the meanings fit coherently with
each other.
 STRUCTURE.STRUCTURE. The way that most pieces of language
in use will contain certain obligatory structural
elements appropriate to their purpose and
context.