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Facultad de Educación

Pedagogía en InglesLingüística Aplicada I

Prof. Carolina Santander

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M.A.K. Halliday

Paper :1961

 Founder Universityof Sidney.

 A grammarian.

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 Systemic

“A network of systems or interrelated

sets of options for making meaning” 

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Functional

“Language is as it is because of what it

has evolved to do ”

 

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  “Language is metafunctionally organized.

The raison d être of language is meaning

in social life.” 

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Grammatical structure A choice

Language Meaning potential

E. g.

English

Mood

Transitivity

Theme

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Lexical set Open system

Semantic components

1. Ideational component

2. Interpersonal component

3. Textual function

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The speaker`s meaning potential as anobserver.

The content function of language.

Language encodes the culturalexperience.

Speakers encode their own personalexperience

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It represents the speaker`s meaningpotential.

Language as doing something

The speaker intrudes himself into thecontext of situation.

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  Resources for enabling the Ideationalcomponent and the Interpersonal

component to come together incoherent text.

The speaker`s text-forming potential.

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Language is a part of everyday life andthrough the child’s close relations with

parents, siblings and other constantfigures

 Learning language

Learning through languageLearning about language 

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A process of construction made up as athree-layered model.

Semantic

Lexicogrammatical

Graphophonic

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“Learning through language refers to

language in the construction of reality: how

we use language to build up a picture of theworld in which we live.” 

The outside language Imagination

The inside language Consciousness

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“Much of our learning about language isconcerned with register variation,

language and society and differentmedia of expression within a language”

Field Tenor

Mode

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  What the content of the text is actuallyabout. Its function of language is

ideational as it puts forward informationas to what ideas the author is trying toget across.

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 Which media is used to convey themessage of the text. This is called the

textual metafunction.