35.74, Books: System in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Matthiessen (2023)

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Date: 08-Dec-2023
From: Janet Joyce [jjoyce at equinoxpub.com]
Subject: System in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Matthiessen (2023)


Title: System in Systemic Functional Linguistics
Subtitle: A System-based Theory of Language
Series Title: Key Concepts in Systemic Functional Linguistics
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
                http://www.equinoxpub.com/
Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/system-sfl/

author: Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
Abstract:

Systemic Functional Linguistics is unique among linguistic theories in
treating the concept of system as the central organising principle of
language (and also of other semiotic systems, including context), most
theories being focussed on syntagmatic structure.

This book introduces the notion of system as the foundation of the
systemic functional architecture of language, relating the general
notion of system in systems thinking (holistic approaches) to the
principle that language is organised as a system of systems (the
polysystemic principle) and, by another step, to the technical sense
of system in SFL as the basic category of paradigmatic patterning –
i.e. the organisation of language as a resource for making meaning.
The concept of system is then used to explore the emergence of
complexity in language (within different semogenetic timeframes), to
show how it is manifested in the organisation of all subsystems of
language (the fractal principle), to illustrate the system at work in
the development of language descriptions and in the process of text
analysis, to reveal the power of the system in different areas of
application, e.g. in computational modelling, in educational analysis
and curriculum development, in multilingual and multimodal studies.
Finally, challenges are identified e.g. in the relationship between
the paradigmatic axis and the syntagmatic one, in the representation
of logical iteration and interpersonal continua; and current and new
opportunities are suggested.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English (eng)



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