Exploring the relationship between theory and practice in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this volume offers a state-of-the-art overview of Appliable Linguistics. Featuring both internationally-renowned scholars and rising stars from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, Indonesia, New Zealand, Singapore and the USA, Appliable Linguistics and Social Semiotics examines the theoretical insights, questions, and developments that have emerged from the application of Systemic Functional theory to a range of fields.
Beyond simply reporting on the application of SFL to particular sites of communication, both linguistic and semiotic, this volume demonstrates how SFL has critiqued, developed and transformed theory and practice and foregrounds the implications of application for Systemic Functional theory itself. Covering established fields for application, such as education, medicine and media, to relatively uncharted areas, such as software design and extremist propaganda, this volume provides an overview of recent linguistic and semiotic innovations informed by SFL and examines the advances that have been made from many years of productive dialogue between theory and practice.
List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Preface Introduction, J. R. Martin, John S. Knox and David Caldwell Part I: Innovative Description 1. Graduation in Research Writing: Managing the Dual Demands of Objectivity and Critique, Susan Hood (University of Sydney, Australia) 2. A Balancing Act: Theorizing Compositional Choices in Photographs, Helen Caple (University of New South Wales, Australia) 3. Developing a Multimodal Rank Scale, John S. Knox (Macquarie University, Australia) 4. A Hip-Hop Battle: Describing Sound in the Contested Academy, David Caldwell (University of South Australia, Australia) Part II: Innovative Practice 5. ‘There are known unknowns…’: Turning to Systemic Functional Linguistics to Understand Language Use in a Classified Military Context, Elizabeth A. Thomson (Charles Sturt University, Australia) 6. Designing Pedagogic Registers: Reading to Learn, David Rose (University of Sydney, Australia) 7. Developing a Systemic Functional Grammar of Korean as a Resource for Practical Application, Mira Kim (UNSW Sydney, Australia) 8. The Reading to Learn Bilingual Program: Taking Multilingualism into Genre-Based Pedagogic Practices, Harni Kartika Ningsih (Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia) 9. Big Data and Managing Multimodal Complexity, Kay O’Halloran, Sabine Tanb, Peter Wignellb, Rebecca Langeb, Kevin Chaib and Michael Wiebrandsb (University of Liverpool, UK and Curtin University, Australia) 10. Our Own Double Helix: The Power of Teachers and Students Understanding how Language Works in Schooling Contexts, Brian Dare and John Polias (Lexis Education, Australia) 11. ‘Appliability’ of SFL in Two Academic Contexts in Argentina: Developing the Teaching of Academic Genres in Spanish, Estela Inés Moyano (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina) 12. Developing an SFL-Inspired Four-Year Collegiate Foreign Language Program: Contexts, Constructs, Curriculum, Heidi Byrnes (Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA) 13. Putting Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Sydney School Genre Pedagogy (SSGP) to Work in a Compulsory First-Year Arts Subject, Shoshana Dreyfus (University of Wollongong, Australia) and Trish Weekes (Literacy Works, Australia) Part III: Evolving Theory 14. Modelling Newborn Screening Genetics Diagnosis Texts: Language as a Tool for Research and Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease, Giacomo Figueredo (Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil) and Kelen Cristina (Sant’Anna de Lima Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) 15. Re-Reading Reading Images, Theo van Leeuwen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) 16. The Appraisal Framework and Analyses of Journalistic Discourse: Objectivity, Subjectivity and Attitudinal Positioning, Peter White (University of New South Wales, Australia) 17. Binding and Bonding: A Retrospective and Prospective Gaze, Maree Stenglin (Independent scholar) 18. Affiliation: An Appliable Framework for Exploring Community and Identity in Discourse, Lorenzo Logi and Michele Zappavigna (University of New South Wales, Australia) 19. Semiotic Description: Grappling with Mathematics, Yaegan J. Doran (University of Sydney, Australia) 20. Revisiting the Modelling of ‘Big Texts’ in SFL: The Role of Embedding in Construing ‘Depth’ in Long Business Reports, Eszter Szenes (University of Sydney, Australia) Part IV: Appliable Linguistics in Progress 21. Re-Thinking the Unit of Phase in the Analysis of Classroom Discourse, Lucy Macnaught (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand) 22. Construing Knowledge through Mandarin Chinese: A Discourse Semantic Perspective, Jing Hao (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile) 23. Semiotic Software through the Lens of Systemic Functional Theory, Emilia Djonov (Macquarie University, Australia) and Theo Van Leeuwen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) 24. Reading to Learn, Learning to Teach: Emergent Bilingual Latina/o/x Parents Read in English to their Young Emergent Bilingual Children at Home, Andres Ramirez (Florida Atlantic University, USA) 25. Revitalizing an Endangered Genre: Applying Genre Theory and the Teaching and Learning Cycle, Anna Crane (University of Sydney, Australia) 26. Teaching the Nation: Iconography and Nationalism in English Language Textbooks in Post-War Sri Lanka, Namala Tilakaratna (National University of Singapore, Singapore) 27. Bodies Talk: Modelling Paralanguage in Systemic Functional Linguistics, Lorenzo Logi, Michele Zappavigna (University of New South Wales, Australia) and J. R. Martin (University of Sydney, Australia) Index
David Caldwell is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literacy at the University of South Australia, Australia. John S. Knox is Honorary Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Macquarie University, Australia. J. R. Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Reviews for Appliable Linguistics and Social Semiotics: Developing Theory from Practice
This volume models how the linguistic description that Systemic Functional Linguistics has developed over decades can indeed be used to address practical problems. Through chapters that take on a diverse range of problems, such as pedagogical issues, illness, and popular texts, it offers an excellent cross-section of work that can guide both novice and experienced researchers who are interested in exploring how powerful linguistics can be as a form of social action. * Priscilla Angela T. Cruz, Department Chair, Department of English, Ateneo de Manila University. Philippines * This book makes a unique contribution to systemic functional theory, documenting its application to different research problems in a rich variety of settings. The contributors include established and emerging scholars, practitioners and scholar-practitioners whose work demonstrates the powerful dialectic of theory, description and practice in action across the globe. -- Pauline Jones, University of Wollongong, Australia
