THE ARCHITECTURE OF LANGUAGE

What does TEXT means according con Systemic Functional Linguistics?

• It means the written part of any oral production

• It refers to any instance of language, in any medium, that makes sense to someone who knows the language

• Text is, in the first instance, a resource for making meaning

• Text means both the largest units that carry melodic patterns, and the smallest units carry articulatory patterns.

TEXT can be explored from many different points of view, but we can distinguish two main angles of vision:

• 1. Dialogic

  2. Monologic

• 1. Internal

  2. External

• 1. Object

  2. Instrument

• 1. Oral

  2. Written

In linguistics, what does CONSTITUENCY means according to Halliday & Matthiessen?

Answer explanation

Units of different sizes carry different kinds of pattern; for example, in phonology, the largest units carry melodic patterns, and the smallest units carry articulatory patterns.

Constituency can be studied in different spheres of the language; except:

• phonological

• functional

• graphological

• lexicogrammatical

There is a scale of rank in the grammar of every language that can be represented as: 1. Sentence; 2. Clause; 3. ...

In the chapter: "Basic concepts for the study of language" language has been referred as:

1. _______________

2. _______________

3. _______________

4. _______________

Stratification in SFL follows an order which is:

semantics ~ lexicogrammar ~ __________

Systemic theory gets its name from the fact that the grammar of a language is represented in the form of system networks, not as an inventory of structures.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What is NOT a metafunction of the language?

• interpersonal

• ideational

• cultural

• textual

What is protolanguage?