Rethinking context : Realisation, instantiation and individuation in Systemic Functional Linguistics
Journal article
Doran, Yaegan, Martin, J. R. and Herrington, Michele. (2024). Rethinking context : Realisation, instantiation and individuation in Systemic Functional Linguistics. Journal of World languages. pp. 1-44. https://doi.org/10.1515/jwl-2023-0051
Authors | Doran, Yaegan, Martin, J. R. and Herrington, Michele |
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Abstract | In spite of decades of research developing a model of language and context, there is little consensus in systemic functional linguistics (SFL) about how context should be modelled and how language and context are related. In this paper, we review recent work in SFL which focuses on modelling register as a resource – reconceiving field as a resource for construing phenomena, tenor as a resource for negotiating social relations, and mode as a resource for composing texture. This work has a number of implications for SFL’s conception of realisation (as strata of abstraction), instantiation (as a cline of generalisation), and individuation (as a scale of belonging). For realisation it bears critically on the issue of whether or not to adopt a stratified model of context (as register and genre) and the relationship between extrinsic functionality (field, tenor, and mode) and intrinsic functionality (ideational, interpersonal, and textual metafunctions). For instantiation, it bears critically on our modelling of principles for coupling (co-selecting and arranging choices within and across languages and related modalities of communication) – for example mass, presence, and association. And for individuation, it bears critically on the perspectives of allocation (i.e. how access to meanings and their uptake is distributed across communities) and affiliation (i.e. how meanings are used to collaborate and struggle, within and between social groups). Our basic aim in this paper is to suggest a model for improving traction as far as SFL work on language in context is concerned, fully embracing a multimodal perspective on language and related modalities of communication as resources for meaning. |
Keywords | context; field; mode; register; systemic functional linguistics; tenor |
Year | 01 Jan 2024 |
Journal | Journal of World languages |
Journal citation | pp. 1-44 |
Publisher | De Gruyter |
ISSN | 2169-8260 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1515/jwl-2023-0051 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/jwl-2023-0051/html |
Open access | Open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 1-44 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
16 Jan 2024 | |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 31 Oct 2023 |
Deposited | 03 Jul 2024 |
Additional information | © 2023 the author(s), published by De Gruyter. |
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. | |
Place of publication | Germany |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/90q9x/rethinking-context-realisation-instantiation-and-individuation-in-systemic-functional-linguistics
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