Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics - Theory and Application - Fang Yan
13. Motivated selection in verbal art, ‘verbal science’, and psychotherapy: When many methods are at one
Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics - Theory and Application - Fang Yan
David Butt [+]
Macquarie University
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David Butt is associate Professor in linguistics at Macquarie University and for more than a decade has been the Director of the University Research Centre for Language in Social Life (CLSL: now a Research Network). This Centre has conducted projects across communities and institutions for which functional linguistics provided significant evidence about the management of change.
Through the Centre, he has been actively engaged with professionals in medicine (surgery and psychiatry), counselling, care for people with disabilities, intelligent systems design and brain sciences, cultural analysis (literature, theatre, world Englishes), complexity theory and 'smart spaces', Vygotskian approaches to education and training, financial reporting, courtroom
explanations and forensic evidence, media and journalism, and child language development (in the traditions of Trevarthen and Halliday). The Centre has also investigated the interrelations between linguistics, verbal art (especially poetry), philosophy and the arguments of natural sciences (viz biology; genetics; and physics). The Centre has actively promoted educational developments in various cultures beyond Australia - Singapore, India, and especially with Timor and in Indonesia. David has published extensively on verbal art and has conducted many research projects and classes
on the subject.
Ashley R. Moore
University of Wollongong
Joan Haliburn [+]
The University of Sydney
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Clinical Senior Lecturer
Psychiatry, Westmead Clinical School
Anthony Korner [+]
The University of Sydney
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Clinical Senior Lecturer
Psychiatry, Westmead Clinical School
Roy Eyal
Description
From the research project undertaken by this team (and outlined below), it emerged that the ‘semantic drift’ of unconscious patterns of meaning making is something that an experienced therapist ‘reads off’ from the interaction. Furthermore, it seems probable that it is in responding to a bandwidth of latent patterns in the structure of discourse that psychotherapists find the motivation for the semiotic techniques their practice propounds as theory.