The relation between systemic grammar and functional grammar
The system network in Systemic Grammar chiefly describes three components of function, or three metafunctions (ideational, interpersonal, and textual). Each of them is a complex system consisting of other systems, and choices are simultaneously made from the three metafunctions.
• He is probably the most important representative of the Systemic-Functional School.
• Systemic-Functional Grammar has two components:
• Systemic Grammar • Functional Grammar
Commodity exchanged Speech role
A. goods & services B .information
(1)giving
offer
statement
(Would you like (he’s giving her
this pen?)
the pen)
Three metafunctions
the ideational the interpersonal the textual function
Functional Grammar
The ideational function is to convey new information, to communicate a content that is unknown to the hearer.
Systemic Grammar
person number tense
First person Second person Third person singular plural past present future
当从有关系统 中一一进行选 择之后（如人 称、数、及物 性、语气、时 态等），则可 生成句子结构。
A Brief Introduction of
Systemic Functional Linguistic 系统功能语言学 简介
• Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday has developed ideas stemming from Firth’s theories in the London School.
ideational function
experiential function
transitivity voice
interdependency logical function
logical-semantic relation
Functional Grammar
The interpersonal function embodies all uses of language to express social and personal relations.
Systemic Grammar
On a general level, there is the Chain System and
the Choice System
Surface aspects of ain
sentence structures, linguistic units, and their ranks (sentence, clause, group,
relation
Systemic Grammar
Systemic grammar aims to explain the internal relations in language as a SYSTEM NETWORK, or MEANING POTENTIAL. And this network consists of subsystems from which language users make choices. The notion of system is made a central explanatory principle, the whole of language being conceived as a “system of systems”. Halliday defines system as a system of potentials, a range of alternatives.
Functional Grammar
Halliday defines a functional grammar as “essentially a ‘natural’ grammar, in the sense that everything in it can be explained”. Halliday interprets language development from a functional point of view and formulates a functional theory of language.
word, and morpheme)
The axis of choice
Meaning aspects of grammar
choice (paradigmatic)
Chain (syntagmatic)
Systemic Grammar
The boy kicked the ball.
Chain (syntagmatic) choice (paradigmatic)