A CLOSE INSIGHT INTO SYSTEMIC MARK HALLIDAY’S FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE TEXT “A GRANDMOTHER  WITH MUSCLES” IN TERMS OF TRANSITIVITY, MOOD AND THEME-RHEME PATTERN

Nguyễn Thị Hồng Hà; Dương Thị Thảo

doi:10.34238/tnu-jst.4174

A CLOSE INSIGHT INTO SYSTEMIC MARK HALLIDAY’S FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE TEXT “A GRANDMOTHER WITH MUSCLES” IN TERMS OF TRANSITIVITY, MOOD AND THEME-RHEME PATTERN

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Received: 16/03/21 Revised: 31/03/21 Published: 31/03/21

Authors

1. Nguyen Thi Hong Ha , TNU - School of Foreign Languages
2. Duong Thi Thao, TNU - University of Sciences

Abstract

When people speak or write, they produce texts. To a grammarian, text is a rich, many-faceted phenomenon that means in many different ways. Systemic functional grammar (SFG) is a text grammar, which means this kind of grammar can describe the use of language. In this way, the meaning of the text can be understood clearly. The application of the framework of SFG to analyze a text can avoid evaluating at will. The article shows an analysis of a text “A grandmother with muscles” based on systemic Mark Haliday’s functional grammar in terms of transitivity, mood and theme-rheme pattern. The findings show that the text is narrative which can be featured by the following characteristics: material and relational processes, simple past and simple present (transitivity), personal subjects, declaratives, no modal elements (mood) and ideational component, unmarked themes (theme-rheme).

Keywords

Systemic functional grammar; Text analysis; Metafunction; Transitivity; Mood; Theme-rheme

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.34238/tnu-jst.4174

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