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- ItemBuilding Historical Knowledge through Language: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspective(Cambridge University Press, 2024) Hao, Jing; Martin, J. R.
- ItemChapter 7 : Functional language typology : a discourse semantic perspective 1(Routledge, 2019) Quiroz, Beatriz; Martin, J. R.; Martin, J. R.; Doran, Y. J.; Figueredo, GiacomoButler (2005: 4), in one of his many overviews of the major tenets of ‘functionalism,’ argues that “a functional theory must take fully into account the essential connection between language and (a) cognition and (b) the social and cultural context of language use.” What tends to be elided in these discussions is the place of co-textual relations as we attempt to interface (1) grammar and cognition or (2) grammar and social context. In this chapter we will address this elision from the perspective of discourse semantics, as developed in Systemic Functional Linguistic theory (hereafter SFL). In particular we will focus on some typological issues arising from consideration of the systems of ideation, conjunction, identification, periodicity, appraisal and negotiation as we try to understand how language has been shaped by its use.
- ItemCultivating a Critical Gaze: Managing Technicality in Ancient History Teaching(Cambridge University Press, 2024) Hao, J.; Martin, J. R.In this chapter we explore the teaching of ancient history in an Australian junior secondary school classroom, focusing particularly on how the knowledge of government in city-states in Ancient Greek are developed. We show that an important part of knowledge building in ancient history involves ‘factoring out’ the meanings which are condensed in technical terms – characterised informally as ‘flexi-tech’ because of the weakly classified nature of the terms. Throughout two history lessons, the teacher guides the students to think ‘critically’ about how types of government are categorised. We show that while Spartan government is referred to in different pedagogic materials as a monarchy, an oligarchy, or a military state, as the lessons unfold the teacher repositions Spartan government as a complex structure – comprising elements of different kinds, including specific elements of democracy. Our analysis focuses on how this repositioning is achieved and what kind of ‘critical thinking’ is involved.
- ItemExperiential cryptotypes : reasoning about process type 1(Routledge, 2019) Quiroz, Beatriz; Martin, J. R.; Doran, Y. J.; Figueredo, GiacomoConceptualizing how language construes experience has been a pervasive thread through the modern history of linguistics. This chapter explores how we can describe languages models of experience through a focus on the reasoning underlying an explicit account of process types in SFL. It takes seriously the claim developed through Whorf, Gleason, Halliday and Davidse that, cross-linguistically, clausal configurations are based on ‘covert or cryptogrammatical patterns that do not necessarily maintain any explicit markings. In doing so, it makes clear a method based on the interdependency of system and structure, known as axial argumentation, that enables description to move beyond unsystematic interpretations of the meanings of isolated items such as work classifying verb types based on their ‘lexical meaning. In doing so, this method offers a path toward responsibly accounting for the agnation patterns, structural configurations and discourse semantic realizations that underpin grammatical organization. This approach is illustrated by exploring the cryptogrammar of ‘sensing in Chilean Spanish, with a particular focus on the covert patterns that are key for distinguishing mental processes from other experiential types in this language.
- ItemFunctional language typology: Systemic Functional Linguistic perspectives(Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) Martin, J. R.; Quiroz, Beatriz