Showing all posts tagged "Sfl"
Look what I got today
Just back in the office from vacation and look what was on my desk!
Posted on June 4th, 2014
Perspective Criticism meets SFL Genre Theory
A blog post [http://bit.ly/1qj2NAs] by one of my former students, Zachary Dawson. Enjoy!
Posted on April 9th, 2014
Reference Tracking: An Example
In my previous post about reference, I said that I’d return to the topic to give an example of the importance of reference analysis for biblical interpretation. I focus here on personal reference chains. Eggins (*Introduction to Systemic Functiona...
Posted on February 19th, 2014
Reference Tracking
In SFL-based discourse analysis, *reference* refers to how writers or speakers introduce participants (i.e., people, places, things that act or are "talked about" in a text) and then tracks them as the text unfolds (cf. Eggins, *Introduction to Sy...
Posted on February 15th, 2014
Linguistics Bibliography
I’ll be teaching Introduction to Linguistics in the 2014 Fall semester. It’ll focus on Systemic-Functional Linguistics. I’ve been building my bibliography. Click here to take a gander at it.
Posted on February 11th, 2014
λαῖλαψ μεγάλη ἀνέμου, γαλήνη μεγάλη, and φόβον μέγαν (Mark 4:37, 39, and 41)
This post is part one of two (part two coming soon).
In Appraisal Theory (cf. the Appraisal Web site), we talk about three systems from which a language user may choose to make interpersonal meaning: ATTITUDE, which includes the subsystems AFFECT...
Posted on December 16th, 2013
A few thoughts on Jude vv. 12–13
I could not for the life of me get this blog post to format the way I wanted to, so I put it into a Google Doc. Click here to view. You can also access it here.
Posted on October 6th, 2013
In case you missed it
I was invited to write a post for the Perspective Criticism blog a while back. If you missed it, you can find it here. Enjoy.
Posted on September 29th, 2013