VIETNAM NATIONAL UNTVERSITY, HA NOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDILS NGUYEN TI THU THỦY AN IXVESTIGATION INTO THE MEANING AND STRUCTURE OF A PICTORIAL STORY: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS (NGHIÊN CỨU CẤU TRÚC VÀ NGỮ NGHĨA CỦA MỘT TRUYỆN TRANH: PHẦN TICH THEO QUAN ĐIỀM CHỨC NĂNG) M. Minor Programme Thesis Field: English Linguistics Coike: 66 22 15 HaNoi 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION ACKNOWLEDGMENT ABSTRACT TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE: INFRODUCTION 1. Rationale of the study. Aims and Seope ofhe study.
Methods of the stady. Design af the study b CHAPTER TWO; LITERATURE REVIEW 2. Systemic Functional Thoory.3, Features of Systemic Functional ‘Theory. Interpersonal Meta fiction.
Anaphoric, Cataphoric, and Exophorie Reference 2.4, Superordinate and Meronymy 12 2. CHAPTER THREE: THE MEANING AND STRUCTURE OF THE PICTURE STORY “THE BRAVE MONK@Y PIRATE” bi sanh. Clauses and Clauses Complexes Analysis - we 15 3. The Analysis of the Toxt in Terms of Transilivily, Mood and Theme 19 3.
The Transifivity Pattern of the Text. The Moad Pattern of the Text.3, The Theme Rheme Pattennofthe TaxL.4, The Cohesion of the Tew.3, Contextual Configuration of the ‘Text 37 CHAPTER FOUR: CONCLUSION ss.n ốốốốốốố ốố ố ốốố. TH HH ướt .39 ‘The ideational metafimetion is the means of representing reality. It consists of experiential meanings and logical meanings (Haliday 1994:179).
Experiential meanings are realized through the system of TRANSITIVITY. In systemic fictional grammar transitivity refers to the different types of process, ‘here are six process types recognized: Material, Mental, Verbal. Material Processes are processes of ‘doing’. They express the notion that some entity ‘does’ something — which may be done ‘to” some other entity.
This type of process may involve up lo three participanls. Tho abligatory participant is the Actor, which is the doer of the action, For example, The tion sprang. Aclor Process: material Some (tet all) pro have 4 sccond participant called Goal, which impli ‘directed at’, For example: The lion caught the tourist. Actor Process: material Goal When there are three participants, their roles are referred to respectively as Actor, Goal and Receiver.
Receiver is one that benefits from the process. Por example: He gave abook foher. Actor Process: material Goal Receiver Mental Processes are processes of sensing such as thinking, loving, wanting, hoping. Tt consists of four main snblypos: cognitive (thinking, knowing, realizing), perceptive (hearing, sensing, feeling), affective (loving, hating, adoring), and desiderative (wanting, desiring, wishing).
In a mental process there are usually two participants: Sensar fone who senses, feels, thinks, and wants) and Phenomenon fone thal is sensed, fall, thought of, and wanted), For example: The by loves the girl Sensor Process: mental Thenomenon Verbal Processes are the processes of saying such as saying, speaking, talking ‘This type of process also covers any kind of symbolic exchange such as showing, indicating. The typical participants in the processes are the Sayer (the one whe docs the verbalization), the Receiver (the one to whom the saying is addressed), the Target (the one that the verbalizationis directed to), and the Verbiage (the message itself), Kor example CHAPTERTWO LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1, Introduction This chapler will provide some key concepts for the study. Tt is concerned with Systemic Functional Theory and its features. Besides, three components of meaning in language and cohesion analysis are also re-examined 2.
Systemic Functional Theory Systemic Functional linguistics (SFL) is a theory which is fimctional and semantic rather than formal and syntactic in orientation. It takes the text rather than the sentence as ils object, and defines ils seape by re lo usage rather than grammaticality., language is analyzed in forms of four strata: Conlexl, Scranties, Lexica-gramunar, and Phonology. The context of situation is refzrred to as Register which is characterized by three functional variables: Field, Tenor and Mode. Field refers to what is going on or the topics and actions which language is used to express.
Tenor is conccrned with the social roles and relationship between participants. Mode is channel of communication. The second stratum, semantics, is the systems of mearing. In SF theory, the meanings of language are Ideational, Interpersonal and Textual which will be explored in some detail in the next part.
Lexico-grammar includes vocabulary and grammar in one unified system Phonology consists of intonation, rhythm, and syllabic and phonemic articulation. ‘hese four strala are related by moans of realization, accordingly, phonology realizes lexio- grammar, which realizes semantics, and which realizes context, 2. Features of Systemic Functional Grammar Syslemic Functional Grammar is a model of grammar devcloped by Michael Halliday in the 1960s, The term “systemic” reférs to the view of language as a network of systems, or interrelated sets of options for making meaning; the term “functional” indicates that the approach is concemed with the contextualized, practical uses to which language is put, as opposed to formal grammar, which focuses on compositional semantics, syntax and word classes. The Ideational Mctafunction ‘The ideational metafimetion is the means of representing reality.
It consists of experiential meanings and logical meanings (Haliday 1994:179). Experiential meanings are realized through the system of TRANSITIVITY. In systemic fictional grammar transitivity refers to the different types of process, ‘here are six process types recognized: Material, Mental, Verbal. Material Processes are processes of ‘doing’.
They express the notion that some entity ‘does’ something — which may be done ‘to” some other entity. This type of process may involve up lo three participanls. Tho abligatory participant is the Actor, which is the doer of the action, For example, The tion sprang. Aclor Process: material Some (tet all) pro have 4 sccond participant called Goal, which impli ‘directed at’, For example: The lion caught the tourist.
Actor Process: material Goal When there are three participants, their roles are referred to respectively as Actor, Goal and Receiver. Receiver is one that benefits from the process. Por example: He gave abook foher. Actor Process: material Goal Receiver Mental Processes are processes of sensing such as thinking, loving, wanting, hoping.
Tt consists of four main snblypos: cognitive (thinking, knowing, realizing), perceptive (hearing, sensing, feeling), affective (loving, hating, adoring), and desiderative (wanting, desiring, wishing). In a mental process there are usually two participants: Sensar fone who senses, feels, thinks, and wants) and Phenomenon fone thal is sensed, fall, thought of, and wanted), For example: The by loves the girl Sensor Process: mental Thenomenon Verbal Processes are the processes of saying such as saying, speaking, talking ‘This type of process also covers any kind of symbolic exchange such as showing, indicating. The typical participants in the processes are the Sayer (the one whe docs the verbalization), the Receiver (the one to whom the saying is addressed), the Target (the one that the verbalizationis directed to), and the Verbiage (the message itself), Kor example 2 hin @ question Sayer s: verbal Reo Verbiage They me. đo, Sayer Process: verbal “Parget Circumstance Behavioural processes are “processes.
of physiological and psychological behaviour like breathing, coughing, dreaming, smiling” (Halliday 1994:139). Typically, there is usually one participant referred to a5 Behaver, and this participant is always a conseions being. Far cxample He laughed. Behaver Process: behavioural Relational processes are the proce: s of being, boing at, and having, In Relational peing sect up hebween two separa cmiities * (Halliday 994: 119).
This relationship can be one of two sub-types, Attribute ot Identifving. When a relational process is in the attributive mode. it has one participant referred to as Carrier, and the quality or the thing showing that thc Carrier belongs to a class of things, which is adjective, is referred to as Atiribute. ‘The Carrier is realized by a nominal group and the Altribute is realized by an adjeclive or an indefinite nominal group, For example - He 8 good.
Carrier Process: relational Attribute When @ relational clause is in the identifying mode, it has two equating participants, one identifying tho olher which arc referred to F ively im two paits of terms as Identified/Identifier and Token/Value. For example: ~ She is the best dactor. Identified Process: relational Fdentifier Intensive process is the process which expresses being in terms of “xis a” and “xis an instance of a”. Circumstantial process is the process which expresses being in terms of circumstantial clements such as timc, place, distanec, reason.
The relation between the participant and its circumstantial element is that of Camier and Attribute. Possessive process expresses being in terms of ownership, the relation between the two terms can be characterized as Possessor and Possessed bul for goneralivation and convenicnes they are still analyzed as Cartier aud Attribute. Existential processes are the processes of existing. ‘They have only one participant, CHAPTERTWO LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1, Introduction This chapler will provide some key concepts for the study.
Tt is concerned with Systemic Functional Theory and its features. Besides, three components of meaning in language and cohesion analysis are also re-examined 2. Systemic Functional Theory Systemic Functional linguistics (SFL) is a theory which is fimctional and semantic rather than formal and syntactic in orientation. It takes the text rather than the sentence as ils object, and defines ils seape by re lo usage rather than grammaticality., language is analyzed in forms of four strata: Conlexl, Scranties, Lexica-gramunar, and Phonology.
The context of situation is refzrred to as Register which is characterized by three functional variables: Field, Tenor and Mode. Field refers to what is going on or the topics and actions which language is used to express. Tenor is conccrned with the social roles and relationship between participants. Mode is channel of communication.
The second stratum, semantics, is the systems of mearing. In SF theory, the meanings of language are Ideational, Interpersonal and Textual which will be explored in some detail in the next part. Lexico-grammar includes vocabulary and grammar in one unified system Phonology consists of intonation, rhythm, and syllabic and phonemic articulation. ‘hese four strala are related by moans of realization, accordingly, phonology realizes lexio- grammar, which realizes semantics, and which realizes context, 2.
Features of Systemic Functional Grammar Syslemic Functional Grammar is a model of grammar devcloped by Michael Halliday in the 1960s, The term “systemic” reférs to the view of language as a network of systems, or interrelated sets of options for making meaning; the term “functional” indicates that the approach is concemed with the contextualized, practical uses to which language is put, as opposed to formal grammar, which focuses on compositional semantics, syntax and word classes. The Ideational Mctafunction CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale of the study Syslemic furictional grarumuar (SFG) is a model of gramunar developed by Michael Halliday in the 1960s, It describes the relationships between grammatical structures and meaning. It is concerned with real language, not with made up examples of language that can be found in many language loxts, oxorcisos, workshools or traditional grammar books Therefore, explicit knowledge of fictional grammar provides a powerfiil tool to assist teachers and students in comprehending and composing texts ina wide range of social and cullural contzxts, As a teacher of English, | would like to introduce this cffoctivz foat to my students in the hope that it can help them study English in a communicative way.
However, to fuléill my wish [ have to gain deep insight into this complex model of functional grammar That is the reason why I would like to choose “An Investigation into the Mcaning and Structure of a Pictorial Story: a Systemic Functional Analysis” for my thesis, using Taltiday’s functional grammar as theoretical framework. Hopefully, this study can effectively contribute to the teaching and learning English as a foreign language in Vietnam 1. Aims and Scope of the study The study makes a big effort to: m Revisit some key concepts of fimetional grammar. m Analyze the meaning and struc ofa pictorial story Inased on framowark of systemic functional grammar.
Therefore, the study is not concemed with all aspects of functional grammar Rather, it focuses on sub-arcas of functional grammar and mentions only those issues related to the analysis of the text.
