Do patterns of ellipsis in text support systemic functional linguistics' 'context-metafunction hook-up' hypothesis? : a corpus based approach
In this thesis, systemic functional linguisticsâ long-assumed âcontext-metafunction hook-upâ hypothesis is subjected to its first large-scale, data-driven exploration. The claims embodied in the âcontext-metafunction hook-upâ hypothesis (henceforth CMHH) concern the relationship between language and context. Viewed as a set of relationships modelled with systemic primacy, linguistic phenomena group into three metafunctional sorts according to systemic functional linguists. The CMHH claims that these three metafunctional groupings correspond to three parameters of semiotic context such that they share a realisational relationship. The CMHH is one of the assumed strengths of the theory of systemic functional linguistics (henceforth SFL). Yet, despite its centrality to wider SFL research, ventures to test it on large-scale with naturally occurring language data are notable by their absence in SFL work. This project takes a step in the direction of filling the aforementioned void. Adopting Martinâs model of the contextual mode parameter as a starting point, the project proceeds on the assumption that if SFLâs CMHH is predictively sound, variation in âmode of discourseâ should correlate with variation
Clarke, Benjamin Peter
P Philology. Linguistics
Do patterns of ellipsis in text support systemic functional linguistics' 'context-metafunction hook-up' hypothesis? : a corpus based approach. In this thesis, systemic functional linguisticsâ long-assumed âcontext-metafunction hook-upâ hypothesis is subjected to its first large-scale, data-driven exploration. The claims embodied in the âcontext-metafunction hook-upâ hypothesis (henceforth CMHH) concern the relationship between language and context. Viewed as a set of relationships modelled with systemic primacy, linguistic phenomena group into three metafunctional sorts according to systemic functional linguists. The CMHH claims that these three metafunctional groupings correspond to three parameters of semiotic context such that they share a realisational relationship. The CMHH is one of the assumed strengths of the theory of systemic functional linguistics (henceforth SFL). Yet, despite its centrality to wider SFL research, ventures to test it on large-scale with naturally occurring language data are notable by their absence in SFL work. This project takes a step in the direction of filling the aforementioned void. Adopting Martinâs model of the contextual mode parameter as a starting point, the project proceeds on the assumption that if SFLâs CMHH is predictively sound, variation in âmode of discourseâ should correlate with variation
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