This study aims to map genres used in the teaching of Natural Sciences in the Brazilian school context, more specifically in the 6th year textbooks. Therefore, the research is based on the theoretical and methodological perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), especially in studies related to genre analysis (MARTIN; ROSE, 2008; ROSE; MARTIN, 2012). We adopted as universe of analysis two textbooks offered by the Programa Nacional do Livro Didático (PLND) to Brazilian public schools of basic education in the 2014-2016 triennium (BRASIL, 2013). We selected as corpus chapters of these textbooks that approach three specific contents: living beings nutrition, garbage and macrocosm. The analytical procedures of the corpus followed the principles of Register and Genre Theory (EGGINS; MARTIN, 1997; MARTIN; ROSE, 2008). This analytical approach foresee the grammatical (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2014) and discursive descriptions (MARTIN, 1992; MARTIN; ROSE, 2007) as the basis for identification of record patterns (HALLIDAY, 1989; MARTIN, 1992), which enables check genres used to teach the selected content (VEEL, 1997; COFFIN, 2006; MARTIN; ROSE, 2008; CHRISTIE; DEREWIANKA, 2010). The results in terms of mapped genres were similar to families identified by Veel (1997): procedures, reports, explanations and arguments. Our analysis allowed identifying an unpredicted family by the author, the family of histories. The occurrence of histories in the corpus is due to the Brazilian political-educational context, since the guiding documents of Natural Sciences teaching, such as the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCN) (BRASIL, 1998), advise working with contents that allow students to understand the relationships between the current scientific knowledge and its historical evolution. In addition, we also found a genre uncatalogued in previous studies of SFL. We call this genre, which we endorse as part of the family of procedures, procedure for analysis, since its social communicative purpose is request analysis on a given fact/social situation, especially those related to the environmental impact of human actions. The occurrence of this genre is also justified due to political and educational context of Brazil, since the PCN indicate as the goal of teaching Natural Sciences the interpretation of environmental imbalance situations resulting of human interference. Finally, our analysis allowed identifying that genres perform social and communicative purposes not only on the paradigmatic axis (MARTIN; ROSE, 2008), that is, as members of a specific family of genres, but also on the syntagmatic axis, this is, in the way they are combined in the structure of the macro genre book chapter. Our study found that each genre fulfills specific roles in the development of the content in the analyzed chapters. In general, we can ensure that reports and explanations perform the function of expanding the content addressed, the procedures serve to enlarge the content, arguments genres act to take the students to adopt particular placement in relation to the content, and histories serve to historically contextualize the subject studied. In short, although more research of this nature are necessary to strengthen or to reconsider the data we found, these results signal some important aspects of school culture in relation to the Natural Sciences teaching in the Brazilian context, and already show some language characteristics that can be used by language and/or Natural Sciences teachers in reading and writing activities about the phenomena of nature. / O presente estudo tem como objetivo principal mapear gêneros usados no ensino da área de ciências naturais em contexto escolar brasileiro, mais especificamente em livros didáticos (LDs) de 6º ano. Para atingir tal propósito, a pesquisa se fundamenta na perspectiva teóricometodológica da Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional (LSF), especialmente nos estudos relacionados à análise de gêneros (MARTIN; ROSE, 2008; ROSE; MARTIN, 2012). Adotamos como universo de análise dois LDs oferecidos pelo Programa Nacional do Livro Didático (PLND) às escolas públicas brasileiras de educação básica, no triênio 2014-2016 (BRASIL, 2013). Selecionamos como corpus capítulos desses LDs que abordam três conteúdos específicos: alimentação dos seres vivos, lixo e macrocosmo. Os procedimentos analíticos do corpus seguiram os princípios da Teoria de Gênero e Registro (EGGINS; MARTIN, 1997; MARTIN; ROSE, 2008). Essa abordagem analítica prevê as descrições gramatical (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2014) e discursiva (MARTIN, 1992; MARTIN; ROSE, 2007) como base para a identificação de padrões de registro (HALLIDAY, 1989; MARTIN, 1992), o que possibilita verificar os gêneros usados para ensinar os conteúdos selecionados (VEEL, 1997; COFFIN, 2006; MARTIN; ROSE, 2008; CHRISTIE; DEREWIANKA, 2010). Os resultados encontrados, em termos dos gêneros mapeados, apresentaram semelhança às famílias identificadas por Veel (1997): a dos procedimentos, a dos relatórios, a das explicações e a dos argumentos. Nossa análise permitiu identificar ainda uma família não prevista pelo autor, a família das histórias. A ocorrência de histórias no corpus se deve ao contexto político-educacional brasileiro, uma vez que os documentos orientadores do ensino de ciências naturais, como os Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (BRASIL, 1998), aconselham o trabalho com conteúdos que possibilitem ao aluno perceber as relações existentes entre os conhecimentos científicos atuais e sua evolução histórica. Além disso, verificamos também um gênero não catalogado nos estudos prévios da LSF. Denominamos esse gênero, que defendemos fazer parte da família dos procedimentos, de Instrução para análise, pois seu propósito sociocomunicativo é solicitar a análise de um dado fato/situação social, em especial aqueles relacionados ao impacto ambiental das ações humanas. A ocorrência desse gênero também se justifica em função contexto políticoeducacional do Brasil, já que os PCNs indicam como objetivo do ensino de ciências naturais a interpretação de situações de desequilíbrio ambiental resultante da interferência humana. Para concluir, nossa análise permitiu identificar que os gêneros realizam propósitos sociocomuncativos não só no eixo paradigmático (MARTIN; ROSE, 2008), ou seja, como membros de uma dada família de gêneros, mas também no eixo sintagmático, isto é, no modo como são combinados na estrutura do macrogênero capítulo de livro. Nosso estudo verificou que cada gênero cumpre função específica no desenvolvimento do conteúdo nos capítulos analisados. De modo geral, podemos assegurar que os relatórios e as explicações desempenham a função de ampliar o conteúdo abordado, os procedimentos servem para retomar o conteúdo, os gêneros dos argumentos atuam para levar o aluno a adotar determinado posicionamento em relação ao conteúdo e as histórias servem para contextualizar historicamente o assunto estudado. Em suma, embora sejam necessárias mais pesquisas dessa natureza para reforçar ou reconsiderar os resultados por nós encontrados, tais dados sinalizam alguns aspectos importantes da cultura escolar no que se refere ao ensino de ciências naturais no contexto brasileiro e já demonstram algumas características da língua que podem ser utilizadas por professores de linguagem e/ou de ciências naturais em atividades de leitura e escrita sobre os fenômenos da natureza.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T14:24:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Patricia Mussi Escobar.pdf: 4797347 bytes, checksum: 854e1a006990b1ef26960eb06da6b9f9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-15 / The research was developed based on the thesis of Vetromille-Castro (2007), in which collaboration and autonomy were considered values that fostered interaction and maintained the cohesion and emergency of the group. However, Vetromille-Castro considered that there were other values besides collaboration and autonomy which were shared among co-valorizing individuals (Piaget, 1973). It is precisely on this hypothesis that we developed this work. In this research we studied the interactive process in a group of trainee teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language (SFL) in virtual learning environment forums. We analyzed the posts of 30 students, the e-learning tutor and two researchers from one of the support centers in four forums of the discipline of Spanish III in a teacher development course in a federal university in southern Brazil in a distance learning modality. The results were obtained by descriptive analysis of a qualitative nature and of a virtual ethnographic interpretation (HINE, 2004). In the interactions we confirmed the hypothesis that there were other values at stake in qualitative changes. In addition to collaboration and autonomy, we identified other values that were common among individuals in the groups, which behaved as complex adaptive (sub)systems (SAC) in each of the four studied forums, also considered as a SAC. Taking into consideration Schwartz s (1992) propositions, we have identified exchanges of mutual benefit (PIAGET, 1973) in each group that was formed in the forums, on a map of values of common scales around values such as equality, friendship, responsibility, creativity, solidarity, among others, besides those already noticed in previous work, namely collaboration and autonomy. / A pesquisa é construída com base na tese de Vetromille-Castro (2007), na qual foi constatado que a colaboração e autonomia foram os valores que fomentaram a interação e mantiveram a coesão e emergência do grupo estudado. Entretanto, Vetromille-Castro considerou que havia outros valores, além da colaboração e da autonomia, que foram compartilhados entre os sujeitos covalorizantes (PIAGET, 1973). E é justamente a partir dessa hipótese que desenvolvemos este trabalho. Na presente pesquisa, estudamos o processo interativo em um grupo de professores em formação de Língua Espanhola como Língua Estrangeira (E/LE) nos fóruns de um ambiente virtual de aprendizagem. Analisamos as postagens de 30 alunos, da professora tutora a distância e das duas professoras pesquisadoras de um polo em quatro fóruns da disciplina de língua espanhola III de uma licenciatura em uma universidade federal no sul do Brasil, na modalidade a distância. Os resultados foram obtidos mediante a análise descritiva, de natureza qualitativa e de interpretação etnográfica virtual (HINE, 2004). Nas interações confirmamos a hipótese de que havia outros valores em jogo nas trocas qualitativas, pois identificamos, além da colaboração e da autonomia, outros valores que eram comuns entre os indivíduos dos grupos, os quais se comportaram como um (sub)sistema adaptativo complexo (SAC) em cada um dos quatro fóruns estudados, também considerados como um SAC. A partir de Schwartz (1992), identificamos, no mapa de valores das escalas comuns de cada grupo que se formou nos fóruns, trocas de benefício recíproco (PIAGET,1973) em torno de valores, como igualdade, amizade, responsabilidade, criatividade, solidariedade, dentre outros, além daqueles já percebidos em pesquisa anterior, a saber, colaboração e autonomia.

Denna uppsats är en stilistisk undersökning av Kerstin Ekmans roman Rövarna i Skuleskogen (1988) genomförd med hjälp av systemisk-funktionell lingvistik och dess analysmodeller. Uppsatsens fokus är tudelat: dels undersöks hur Ekman presenterar en bild av döden och hur den varieras, dels studeras hur Ekman använder dialogen för att förmedla att huvudkaraktären blir mer och mer mänsklig. Detta görs genom en transitivitetsanalys och en interpersonell analys.   Uppsatsen visar att döden i Rövarna i Skuleskogen tidvis presenteras som ett fenomen med många mänskliga drag: han är av manligt kön, kan utföra fysiska handlingar och vara mentalt, men inte verbalt, aktiv. Det finns en korrelation mellan dödens frekvens, aktivitet och personifiering. I dialogen märks framför allt karaktärernas inbördes maktrelation tydligt, och resultaten visar att huvudkaraktären Skord tillåts vara mer dominant närmare slutet av romanen.

Masters of Art / This thesis examines how two narrators construe their experiences of the same events differently through the linguistic choices that they make, through a systemic functional analysis, as well as a genre analysis of two testimonies. The Human Rights Violations (HRV) hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) allowed testifiers to tell stories of their experiences during apartheid. The selected testimonies refer to the events that led up to the arrest and eventual torture of Faried Muhammad Ferhelst, as told by himself and his mother, Minnie Louisa Ferhelst. Theframeworks used to analyse the testimonies are drawn from the transitivity and genre theories of Systemic Functional Linguistics. A clausal analysis of the transitivity patterns is used to compare the ways in which the testifiers construct their identities and roles when recounting their stories. The transitivity analysis of both testimonies shows that both Mrs Ferhelst and Faried Ferhelst construe themselves as the Affected participant through Material, Mental and Verbal clauses, and construe the police as the Causers, mostly through Material clauses. A genre analysis revealed that both testimonies took the form of narratives, in particular the Recount, a typical genre for relating narratives of personal experience. This research project also explores how the original Afrikaans versions of the testimonies differ from the translated English versions, available online on the TRC website. The Afrikaans versions were transcribed by the researcher from audio-visual records. A transitivity analysis reveals that the interpretation of the Afrikaans testimonies is fairly accurate, with a minimum loss of meaning. Thus in the case of these testimonies, the actual online record in English is an accurate reflection of their stories. / South Africa

Masters of Art / There has been a great deal of research exploring Halliday’s (1978, 1994, 2004)Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) approach. However, there has been little work that specifically targets SFL to explore African discourse. Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) views language as “social semiotic”, that is, language is functional in terms of what it can do or what can be done with it; and semantic in that it is used to make meanings (Halliday’s, 1978). This study explores SFL to analyse narratives of identity as told by Yoruba students at three Western Cape Universities: University of the Western Cape (UWC), University of Cape Town (UCT) and University of Stellenbosch (SUN). This research is both quantitative and qualitative in outlook and results of the study are presented. I used the qualitative method to collect and analyse the data; but a certain amount of quantitative analysis was presented as well in order to determine the predominant identity options favoured by the students. A total of 14 Yoruba students were interviewed for data collection which was analysed with SFL interpersonal metafunction theoretical approach. Specifically, the study examines linguistic choices that the students utilize to maintain and reconstruct their identities in Cape Town. This concentrates on the aspects of Mood component combining Subject and Finite element, Residual component comprising Predicator, Complement and Adjunct as well as Modality in participants’ narratives. Besides, an important aspect of the study was the consideration given to ethical issues. Analyses are presented on tables showing the frequencies of the interpersonal elements as configuration for preference use of different Subjects, Finites, Predicators, Complement and Adjuncts to either strengthen or weaken positions. Equally, the metaphorically expressions of objectivity to highlight the continuities and contradictions in the students’ narratives of identity in the diaspora was considered. These serve as interpersonal elements used by participants for stylizing and personalizing different identities options. Also, the study presents how the students organize their message for cohesion/coherence in their narratives. Thus, SFL establishes how the linguistic choices of the students reflect identity options in their new environment. The study shows the strengths of systemic-functional approach in its integration of what the students said, with what they might mean within the situation in which they said them. Finally, I conclude that these elements of interpersonal metafunction framework make participants’ narratives coherent while revealing the different identities they appropriated in the diaspora.

Denna studie är en kvalitativ textanalys av SAS kriskommunikation under pilotstrejken 2019. Materialet för studien är fyra pressmeddelanden som SAS publicerar på sin hemsida angående pilotstrejken. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka SAS kriskommunikation, hur strejken framställs i pressmeddelandena, om någon konstrueras som ansvarig för krisen och om SAS tillämpar någon image reparerande strategi. Detta görs genom en teoretisk utgångspunkt från den retoriska kriskommunikationsforskningen och den systemisk-funktionella grammatiken, med fokus på den ideationella metafunktionen som anser att språkets betydelse är det centrala för texters mening. Metoder som används är den ideationell grammatik, ergativitetsanalys och en analys av image repair theory från den retoriska kriskommunikationsforskningen. Analysen visar att händelsen framställs som konkret med tydliga deltagare och påverkan, pilotföreningarna framställs som ansvarig för strejken och det återfinns flera olika image reparerande strategier i pressmeddelandena.

Research points at the textbook as the main source for mathematics development in the early school ages. The study enhances the concept of relational and instrumental understanding as means to address the teaching environment within textbooks. To investigate a part of the linguistic structure of this literature, this study reports on the main features that characterize the word class known as verbs due to their presence throughout a series of textbooks designed for the stages 1 to 3 in Sweden. The goal was to make common claims about frequency, tense and processes due to these verbs. By creating a specialized corpus, these verbs were catalogued and marked in comparison to two larger corpora and to GERS-levels. A process analysis was then done based on a systemic-functional linguistic tool. The results show a vast difference between the low- and the high frequency verbs. Analysis showed that present tense held the highest frequency by over 50%. Results also showed presence of the formal passive voice. Furthermore, the material processes were in a large majority in contrast to others present. Other indications of the analysis showed poor conditions for development of relational understanding in contrast to emphasis made in the national curriculum. Conclusions involve statements regarding textbook teaching methods not providing sufficient environments for language development. The characters of the verb corpus might place demands on students’ lexical knowledge and language proficiency level on forehand, which might induce a language-related knowledge barrier against the mathematical communication provided through the textbook.

SammandragSyftet med studien var att undersöka förkomsten av olika typer av semiotiska resurser som har betydelse för förståelsen av texten i läromedel, med fokus på hur bild och text samspelar som stödstrukturer. Två läromedel i svenska som andraspråk för kurs 1, 2 och 3 framställda efter den aktuella läroplanen (Gy 11) undersöktes (Sätt full fart och Språkporten). En kvalitativ studie genomfördes där bild, text och faktarutor analyserades utifrån en analysmodell (Björkvall 2009) som är baserad på metafunktionerna i Systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Studiens resultat visade att bildernas placering gav reellt (specifikt) informationsvärde samt att deras interaktion med läsaren var av erbjudande karaktär. Studien visade på att det finns stora likheter mellan läromedlen gällande på vilket sätt bild/faktarutor/verbaltext används, men att Språkporten använder layout i högre utsträckning. Läromedlens variation av semiotiska resurser, i synnerhet i Sätt full fart, kan antas fungera som stöttning för helhetsförståelsen, vilket i tidigare studier har visat sig vara ett stöd för elever generellt men för andraspråkselever i synnerhet. / nej

Studiens syfte var att studera hur första- och andraspråkstalande studenter agerar i den akademiska gemenskapen med fokus på hur de inkorporerar röster genom att referera och citera. Studien samlade in data genom enkäter och texter som sedan användes för analys. Urvalet bestod av 10 deltagare varav 5 var svenska som förstaspråkstalare och 5 svenska som andraspråkstalare. Deltagarna var inskrivna och gick kursen Akademiskt skrivande 1SV108 på Linneuniversitetet. De viktigaste resultaten studien fann var att det fanns en individuell variation i val och användning av inkorporering av röster i akademisk skrift. Den individuella variationen bestod av vilka referensmarkörer som användes för att inkorporera källor och skribenternas egna röster och hur och vilka typer av citat som användes för att uttrycka skribentens röst.

La importancia de enseñar fraseología en la clase de ELE es algo que se ha señalado en los últimos años dada su importancia para la adquisición de la competencia comunicativa y de otras competencias claves como la sociocultural. El propósito de este estudio es determinar, mediante una encuesta, cómo enseñan los profesores de ELE en Suecia la fraseología y su componente sociocultural y cuáles son los retos a los que se enfrentan los profesores de ELE en Suecia a la hora de introducir el lenguaje idiomático en el aula. En primer lugar, los resultados de este estudio indican que existe una metodología inespecífica y heterogénea y que los docentes no son totalmente conscientes de la importancia de la fraseología. En segundo lugar, existen una serie de retos a los que los docentes se deben enfrentar, fundamentalmente, la falta de material de consulta para la enseñanza de la fraseología y la falta de material didáctico y propuestas didácticas para los alumnos. Adicionalmente, el tratamiento que se le da a la fraseología tanto en el material didáctico como en los currículos es problemático. Otros escollos a los que se enfrenta el docente son el desconocimiento del tema, la terminología confusa o la falta de tiempo a la hora de planificar su enseñanza. Por lo tanto, el estatus de la fraseología en la clase de ELE en Suecia es bastante precario. Para empezar, es necesario que los currículos resuelvan el caos terminológico y aporten directrices claras acerca de qué unidades son adecuadas para cada nivel. En el caso del currículo sueco existe además un escollo adicional, la fraseología es mencionada de pasada y de forma muy imprecisa. Además, es necesario que los docentes dispongan de manuales, diccionarios y material específico y propuestas didácticas adecuadas para los alumnos. De este modo, la fraseología dejará de ser un tema desconocido y se comprenderá la importancia de su enseñanza y aprendizaje para la adquisición de la lengua meta. / The importance of teaching phraseology in the SFL class is something that has been pointed out in recent years given its importance for the acquisition of the communicative competence and other key competences such as the sociocultural. The purpose of this study is to determine, through a survey, how SFL teachers in Sweden teach phraseology and its sociocultural component and what are the challenges SFL teachers in Sweden face when introducing idiomatic language in the classroom. Firstly, the results of this study indicate that there is a non-specific and heterogeneous methodology and that teachers are not fully aware of the importance of phraseology. Secondly, there are a series of challenges that teachers must face, mainly the lack of reference material for teaching phraseology and the lack of didactic material and didactic proposals for students. Additionally, the treatment given to phraseology both in didactic material and in curricula is also problematic. Other pitfalls that the teacher faces are lack of knowledge on the subject, confusing terminology or lack of time when planning their teaching. Therefore, the status of phraseology in the SFL class in Sweden is quite precarious. To begin with, the curricula need to resolve the terminological chaos and provide clear guidelines about which units are appropriate for each level. In the case of the Swedish curriculum there is also an additional pitfall, phraseology is mentioned very briefly and in a very imprecise way. Moreover, it is necessary for teachers to have manuals, dictionaries and specific material and didactic proposals suitable for students. In this way, phraseology will stop being an unknown subject and the importance of its teaching and learning for the acquisition of the target language will be understood.