FG3-28-03

SFL sees language the entire social system as a "social semiotic". This means that:

• SFL interprets the social system as a collection of texts

• It sees it as a system of meanings constituting the reality of the culture

• The social system is analysed mainly by looking at mass media discourse

• It sees the social system as a set of rules for behaving correctly

What does the notion of "contextual configuration" (theorised by R. Hasan) refer to?

• What does the notion of contextual configuration (theorised by R. Hasan) refer to?

• The union of context of situation and context of culture

• The combination of the relevant variables of a context of situation

• The different perspectives on text analysis seen as one configuration

In an SFL perspective, the text is at the same time the result and the 'creator' of a context.

• True

• False

A book about chess openings, for a non-expert reader/ beginner, instantiates:

• A fairly closed register

• A totally closed register

• A totally open register

• A fairly open register

The notion of register, by its very nature, contracts the notion of meaning potential.

• True

• False

In this text, Speaker Joe Biden is trying to ... the audience with his view, signalling Bakhtin's ... force at work.

• Persuade - intertextual

• Divide - centrifugal

• Exhort - monoglossic

• Align - centripetal

In our English linguistics classes language serves an ancillary role.

• True

• False

Who put forward the notion of contratextuality?

• J.R. Martin

• M.A.K. Halliday

• J. Lemke

• B. Malinowski

Register hybridity means that:

• Features of different registers may frequently blend

• The same register may appear in different contexts of situation

• We shall never know what a register looks like

• There is an overlap between Tenor and Mode