- Focus on the appropriate forms in a particular context
- Primary concern: Functions
-Taught with the inductive method
What is the primary aim of the SFG
Analysis?
To learn the Grammar of a Language as a resourse
for making and exchanging meaning
How does language work?
Level of Analysis
Semantics: the system of Meaning in a language
Lexis: The vocabulary of a language
Phonology: the sound system of a particular language
Grammar: Syntax and Morphology
How do these levels related?
There are not clear cut division lines among them.
Different analysis will make different divisions.
How is Grammar
organized?
RANK: different levels of
organization withing grammar
SENTENCE - CLAUSE - GROUP - WORDS
CLAUSE: embedding - one unit is
used as a constituent of another
unit at the same or lower level
CLASS
NOUNS - VERBS -ADVERBS - ADJECTIVES
GROUP VS FRASES
The only recognized frase is the
PREPOSITIONAL FRASE. the others are groups
How is "Meaning" organized?
EXPERIENTIAL MEANING: It has to o
with the ways language represent
our experience
INTERPERSONAL MEANING: It has to do
with the ways in which we act apong one
an other through language and the ways
in which we express aour judgement and
attitudes
TEXTUAL MEANING: It has to do with the ways
in which a strech of language is organized in
relation to its context.
Formal Approach to Grammar
Grammar as a set of rules
Distintion between: Grammatical
rules and Ungrammatical rules