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Title |
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The System as a Navagational Tool in Language Description and Text Analysis - System in Systemic Functional Linguistics |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Christian Matthiessen; The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Hong Kong |
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Discipline(s) |
Linguistics |
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Keyword(s) |
axis; paradigmatic axis; syntagmatic axis; choice; system network; holistic approach; semogenesis; phylogenesis; ontogenesis; logogenesis; adaptive system; choice in translation |
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Subject classification |
Systemic Functional Linguistics |
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Description |
Abstract |
In the previous chapter, I have shown how language can be conceptualized as a resource and represented by means of systems forming system networks. These system networks are ‘dispersed’ throughout the stratal systems that make up language and also the extra-linguistic higher-order system of context. Systemic terms are related across strata by inter-stratal realization so that all of language in fact can be thought of as a gigantic system network. In this chapter, I will discuss some of the consequences of modelling language systemically – of foregrounding the paradigmatic mode of axial order. I show how the system can serve as a cartographic and navigational tool in both descriptions of the linguistic system and the analysis of texts. First I explain the notion of systemic cartography, and then I show how systemic descriptions are used in text analysis, and how systemic text analysis can be presented as systemic scores with chords. In the course of this account, I introduce systemic frequencies in text and relate them to probabilities in the system, noting how this conception of language as a probabilistic system enables us to interpret evolution as gradual change in systemic probabilities and register variation as variation in probabilities. I end the chapter with a summary of the system as a navigational tool. |
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Publisher |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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08-Dec-2023 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/38384 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.38384 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; System in Systemic Functional Linguistics |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |