Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Background
M.A.K. Halliday
Paper :1961
Founder University
of Sidney.
A grammarian.
Language
Systemic A network of systems, or interrelated sets of options for making meaning
Language
Functional Language is as it is because of what it has evolved to do.
Language
Language is metafunctionally organized. The raison d'tre of language is meaning in social life.
Grammar (Closed Systems)
Grammatical structure
Language
A choice
Meaning potential
Meaning
Lexical set
Open system
Semantic components
1. Ideational component
2. Interpersonal component
3. Textual function
Ideational component
The speaker`s meaning potential as an observer.
Open system
Semantic components
1. Ideational component
2. Interpersonal component
3. Textual function
Ideational component
The speaker`s meaning potential as an observer.
The content function of language.
Language encodes the cultural experience.
Speakers encode their own personal experience
Interpersonal component
It represents the speaker`s meaning potential.
Language as doing something
The speaker intrudes himself into the context of situation
Textual function
Resources for enabling the Ideational component and the Interpersonal component to come
together in coherent text.
The speaker`s text-forming potential.
Language Acquisition
Language is a part of everyday life and through the childs close relations with parents,
siblings and other constant figures
Learning language
Learning through language
Learning about language
Learning language
A process of construction made up as a three-layered model.
Semantic
Lexicogrammatical
Graphophonic
Learning through language
Learning through language refers to language in the construction of reality: how we use
language to build up a picture of the world in which we live.
The outside language
Imagination
Consciousness