nÃo hà / Esta pesquisa analisa como se manifesta a interaÃÃo escrita professor-aluno em turmas de 1 ano do ensino mÃdio de uma escola pÃblica do Estado do Cearà em contexto de uso da metodologia da aprendizagem cooperativa, levando em consideraÃÃo a estrutura linguÃstica e o contexto social do gÃnero Processamento de grupo. Para tanto, tem-se como objetivos: I) identificar as aÃÃes sociais das professoras e dos alunos; II) analisar os tipos de papÃis que eles assumem; e III) examinar de que modo professoras e alunos organizam a mensagem por meio da qual se relacionam nesse contexto. O Processamento de grupo trata-se de um registro oral ou escrito atravÃs do qual alunos e professores devem avaliar o trabalho executado pelos grupos de estudantes. Esse gÃnero textual foi analisado a partir do suporte teÃrico da LinguÃstica SistÃmico-Funcional, mais especificamente, investigaram-se as variÃveis campo, relaÃÃes e modo; os Processos e seus Participantes, no Sistema de Transitividade; as categorias de Modo e ResÃduo, no Sistema de MODO; as categorias Dado/Novo, no sistema da Estrutura da InformaÃÃo; e as categorias Tema/Rema, alÃm dos tipos de Tema, no sistema da Estrutura TemÃtica. A anÃlise sistÃmico-funcional do gÃnero Processamento de grupo revelou que a interaÃÃo entre professoras e alunos, neste universo de pesquisa, baseia-se numa relaÃÃo dialÃgica, por meio da qual: a) os alunos descrevem aÃÃes positivas ou negativas realizadas em seus grupos cooperativos; e b) as professoras solicitam informaÃÃes e avaliam aquilo que foi mencionado pelos estudantes. Verificou-se que a descriÃÃo das aÃÃes apresentadas pelos discentes evidencia em que medida eles desenvolvem os elementos bÃsicos da aprendizagem cooperativa. Espera-se que este estudo auxilie gestores e professores a repensarem os usos do Processamento de grupo a fim de aperfeiÃoarem a forma de aplicaÃÃo desse gÃnero textual como instrumento de interaÃÃo entre professores e alunos em contexto de uso da metodologia da aprendizagem cooperativa. / This academic research analyses how the teacher-student written interaction is manifested in first grade classes of the Brazilian high school at a public institution in the state of CearÃ, in a context of usage of Cooperative Learning methodology taking into account the linguistic structure and the social context of the Group Processing genre. Therefore, targeted goals are: I) identification of social attitudes of teachers and students; II) analysis of the types of roles they assume; and III) examination of how teachers and students organize the message through which they relate themselves in this context. Group Processing is about oral or written register whereby students and teachers should evaluate the work executed by the groups of students. This textual genre was analyzed as of the theoretical support of Systemic Functional Linguistics, more specifically, there have been investigated the variables of field, tenor and mode; the Processes and their participants in the System of Transitivity; the categories of Mood and Residue, in the MOOD System; the categories New/Given, in the system of Structure of Information; and the categories of Theme/Rheme, in the Structure of Theme. The Systemic Functional Analysis of the Group Processing genre has revealed that the teacher-student interaction, in this field of research, is based on a dialogic relation through which: a) students describe either positive or negative attitudes realized in their cooperative groups; and b) teachers request information and evaluate what was mentioned by students. It has been verified that the description of presented actions by the students evidences the extent of their development of the basic elements of Cooperative Learning. It is expected that this study helps school managers and teachers to rethink the usage of Group Processing in order to perfect the application methods of this textual genre as a tool for the interaction of teachers and students in a context of usage of the Cooperative Learning methodology.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / This thesis is a discourse analysis of five testimonies from South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The aim of the analysis is to explore the ways in which the testifiers perform their identities, construe their experiences of life under apartheid, and position themselves and their audiences in relation to these experiences. The shaping role of context – both local and historical – is also considered.

Magister Artium - MA / International students arriving at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) from other African countries find themselves in a position of having to negotiate their identities and positions with their South African counterparts. The local students too are faced with the prospect of doing the same since they have to coexist with the former. This study aims to investigate how, in a discussion about xenophobia, a selection of UWC students perform face-work and negotiate or construct their identities as well as those of their coparticipants and position themselves in relation to each other. I was interested in exploring how the participants, who were representative of the two groups that clashed in the xenophobic attacks of 2008, would engage with each other while discussing this sensitive topic.The data was gathered during an open-ended discussion among four UWC postgraduate students in a casual, relaxed setting (my room on campus). The transcribed data was then analyzed using a combination of theoretical frameworks from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Discourse Analysis. In particular, the SFL theory of modality(Halliday 1994) and Engagement (Martin and White 2005) and Goffman’s (1999[1967]) notion of face were used as tools of analysis.The analysis reveals that participants use a variety of linguistic choices and discourse strategies to maintain face during the discussion of this sensitive topic of xenophobia. The participants make an effort to take care of each other’s face (desires to be appreciated and left free of any imposition) and keep conflicts to a minimum even when they at times disagree and give incriminatory information about each other. It also reveals that the participants, in addition to maintaining face, also construct and negotiate identities which in turn help build in-group solidarity and provide a sense of belonging to them.

Magister Artium - MA / South Africa is a diverse, multilingual country with a majority of its youth owning or using cellular phone technologies. The cell phone interaction between multilingual individuals from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds suggests that a range of multilingual styles are being developed in the electronic domain, particularly when sending SMSes (Short Message Service messages). This study uses the Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspective (SFL) to analyse how English, Afrikaans and isiXhosa are being transformed through the medium of text messaging at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). In using methods such as thematic analysis and SFL this research is interested in the linguistic choices individuals make when engaging in SMS/Mxit messages to express themselves. The study aims to look at the effects of concepts such as globalization, stylization, polylingual languaging and transidiomatic practices on text messaging itself; and in turn to see how these text messages are typified by the mixing and blending of languages and their multimodal aspects are then considered to be a coherent and cohesive social practice among the youth. In addition, considering new developments in language studies, particularly the notions of language as social practice and hybrid languaging practices, it also looks at SMS/Mxit messages and examines them against the ‘traditional’ monolingual concepts of codeswitching and code-mixing. The linguistic analysis of this text based data presents a framework for exploring how members of the youth portray their identities as it allows the researcher to deal with interpersonal dimensions of language in texts in a systematic manner. These interpersonal dimensions view the relationships between participants in relation to their performance of identity. Drawing on SMS/Mxit data from 60 third year university students, the focus of this thesis is to investigate if the languages used during SMS/Mxit interactions are being modified and transformed by this medium of communication. It simultaneously looks at these student communicators performing a range of identity options. The study concludes that English, Afrikaans and isiXhosa are not used as separate language entities but are instead used as one language resource. It highlights how speakers use features of any language as linguistic options for a communicative event. Ultimately, the study demonstrates that SMS speak is not seen as an alternative language used within a third space but has instead become a norm in terms of language practices among the youth.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / The purpose of this study is to investigate the writing identities constructed in the Further Education and Training (FET) Phase and the ways in which these identities either strengthen or impede academic writing at university. Success at university is predominantly dependent on students' ability to express their ideas through writing academic essays or assignments in most faculties. However, studies over the past decade highlight the inability of many South African learners, especially those for whom English is not a home language, to succeed at universities. The poor performance of such students is often linked to the lack of adequate preparation in the FET Phase, which is grades 10 to 12, the grades prior to entering first year undergraduate programmes. The significance of this study is that it sheds light on the discourse features of policy, texts, pedagogy and assessment in the FET Phase and the consequences of these for the construction of writers' identities. Further, it foregrounds the ways that policy positions teachers, learners and learning despite diversity in school cultures, identities and histories, and more importantly the ways that unique local pedagogical contexts construct writer identities as a bridge towards engagement in academic essays and the discourses valued at higher institutions. The intention was thus twofold: on the one hand to understand the writer identities constructed in the FET phase and secondly to shed light on the ways that these identities intersect with academic writing, in an attempt to inform first year writing programmes at universities. This was an ethnographic study that included participant observation, interviews with teachers and document analysis of national curriculum policies, grade 12 English Additional language external question papers and first year student texts. The participants were two grade 10 English classes from two schools with different profiles in terms of learner background, linguistic repertoire, and socio-economic circumstances. The rationale for focusing on grade 10 is that it is the first initiation point into the FET Phase and as such an important site to investigate the ways in which writing identities are activated. I thus ‘shadowed’ these learners for two years, up to the end of grade 11. Finally, I analysed first year student texts produced by learners from these two schools in their first year of study at a Cape Town university. In order to engage with my data, I first drew on Bourdieu's concepts of field, habitus and capital, to illuminate the ways in which national policies constructed theories and pedagogies of language teaching and learning, and positioned teachers, as well as the consequences of these policies and positionings for constructing sound writer identities. I then focused on the different organizing practices at the two schools, in order to foreground positionings enacted in local contexts. As a result, the study sheds light on the ways that writer identities were activated at two secondary schools in Cape Town, both of which served a previously disadvantaged population but with one classified as poorly resourced while the other enjoyed the status of a well-resourced school. My study centred on the visible and invisible curricula, the differing kinds of cultural capital they produce and the conversion of this capital into other forms of cultural and symbolic capital (such as access to university) which may eventually be converted to economic capital in the form of access to well-paid kinds of employment. Secondly, I drew on Systemic Functional Linguistics, with its conception of language as socially produced and politically situated and its development by the 'Sydney school' into genre-based pedagogy, as an analytical lens to unpack the language learning and teaching theories underpinning policy documents. This lens was also useful for evaluating the extent to which curriculum, pedagogy and assessment tools inducted learners into the key 'genres of schooling' (such as information report, explanation, and argument) that are necessary for success across the curriculum at school and university. Most importantly, it allowed for a rigorous linguistic analysis of first year student scripts and the extent to which writers managed the three metafunctions, ideational, interpersonal and textual. These metafunctions are the basis for coherent, well-structured, genreappropriate writing. The study found that mismatches between policy framing and the way that writing was taught and assessed in the FET Phase resulted in massive gaps between the writer identities constructed in the FET Phase and the first year writer identities valued at universities. Findings help to pinpoint some of the reasons why particular learners manage to make the transition into tertiary study and why a large number of learners studying through English as an additional language either fail to gain access into university or fail during their first year of study. Finally, findings pointed out the effects of post democracy curriculum shifts and national examinations on classroom discourse and pedagogy, especially in relation to constructing enabling writer identities, and more importantly on the ability of learners making the transition into university to produce academically valued texts in their first year of study.

This study investigates clause complexing and conjunctive explicitation in a speciallycompiled corpus consisting of two sets of Arabic translations and comparable non-translatedArabic texts both produced by the same translators/authors in the domainsof history and philosophy. Focusing on certain types of conjunctive markers, thisstudy seeks to find lexico-grammatical evidence of one of the translation-specificfeatures, i.e. features typical of translated language, in these selected target texts,using both parallel and comparable corpora.Adopting a Systemic Functional approach for analyzing logico-semantic relationsbetween clauses, clause complexes and sequences in Arabic, the study examinessome causal and concessive conjunctions and conjunctive Adjuncts in Arabictranslated and non-translated texts, and contrasts these with their English counterpartswith a view to identifying recurrent patterns or trends of 'explicitation', one of thefeatures that are arguably typical of translated texts.Baker (1996) suggests a number of translation-specific features, which manifestthemselves in translated texts on lexical and syntactic levels, and seem to be typicalof translated language in general. Evidence of one such posited feature, namelyexplicitation, is sought in the selected translators' handling of structural and textualconjunctive expressions in the English source texts. Thus, the primary aim of thepresent study is twofold: to examine from a systemic functional perspectivedifferences in the patterns of instantiation of clause complexing and conjunctiverelations in English source texts, their Arabic translations and Arabic non-translationsauthored by the same translators; and to investigate whether, and to what extent, thesedifferences are attributable to explicitation as a translation-specific feature.The originality of this study stems first from its focus on Arabic, thus addressing aconspicuous gap in corpus-based research on translation-specific features, which hasso far been largely confined to Indo-European languages. Secondly, being theorydriven,and specifically embedded in a systemic functional framework, the conceptionof explicitation adopted in this study constitutes a departure from the taxonomicapproach characteristic of a large body of literature on explicitation, which is neitherinformed nor motivated by a coherent theoretical framework, with the result that itoften engenders a flat model of description and classification, with vague overlappingcategories. Confirming the findings of earlier studies on explicitation, this study hasrevealed a tendency of explicitation features to cluster in various metafunctionalenvironments, with the overall effect of reducing vagueness or complexity, avoidingambiguity, and enhancing comprehensibility through enhanced conjunctivecohesiveness, reinforcement, expanded simplification or unpacking of complexconstructions.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(人間・環境学) / 甲第22540号 / 人博第943号 / 新制||人||224(附属図書館) / 2019||人博||943(吉田南総合図書館) / 京都大学大学院人間・環境学研究科共生人間学専攻 / (主査)准教授 高橋 幸, 教授 谷口 一美, 教授 STEWART Timothy William, 准教授 笹尾 洋介, 教授 田地野 彰 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Human and Environmental Studies / Kyoto University / DGAM

Syftet med studien var att studera vårdnadshavare som samtidigt deltar i SFI-undervisning och deras erfarenheter av att delta i sina barns utvecklingssamtal i grundskolan. Studien utgick från följande frågeställningar om hur vårdnadshavares erfarenheter av utvecklingssamtal i grundskolan visar sig, beskrivna av dem själva, vilka möjligheter och hinder som vårdnadshavarna beskriver att de har erfarenheter av och vad har SFI-undervisningen betytt för vårdnadshavarna för att delta i sina barns utvecklingssamtal, enligt deras beskrivningar? Studiens teoretiska utgångspunkter är ett interkulturellt perspektiv och Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) och metodologiska utgångspunkter är semistrukturerade intervjuer och analyser av narrativer. Resultatet visar att gemensamt i berättelserna var att vårdnadshavarna först använde tolk i sina barns utvecklingssamtal men att när de började förstå svenska bättre så ville de hellre klara sig utan och fann strategier för det. Gemensamt var att fråga läraren eller ta hjälp av sina barn och en variation var att använda engelska eller att läraren hade samma modersmål som vårdnadshavaren. Möjligheter och hinder för att delta i utvecklingssamtalen varierade. Vårdnadshavarnas strategier möjliggjorde deltagandet. Hinder som visade sig var när läraren pratade fort och använde svåra ord, vilket samtidigt blev en möjlighet om läraren omvänt pratade långsamt, tydligt och med enkla ord. Resultatet gör synligt interkulturella förhållningssätt där deltagarna visar förståelse för varandras olika etniska bakgrund och kulturella skillnader, vilket kan ses som förutsättningar för tillitsfulla relationer och att våga fråga läraren. Vårdnadshavarnas vilja att klara sig själva är möjlig att förstå ur ett SFL-perspektiv där språket ska fungerar för att tolka upplevelser, skapa mening och kommunicera, vilket är drivkrafter för att lära sig språket. Resultatet visar inte att vårdnadshavarna gav SFI-undervisningen någon särskild betydelse för att delta i sina barns utvecklingssamtal. Däremot visade begränsat antal timmar i undervisningen och flertalet studieavbrott att det ledde till att andraspråksinlärningen drar ut på tiden, vilket går att förstå som svårigheter för att nå ett funktionellt språk.

Advertisements are multimodal texts created to get attention from potential customers in order to sell products. Previous research has shown how advertisements’ visual and verbal features make up ideological codes that are used to affect readers. To interpret these codes and gain an understanding of advertisements as communicative artifacts, a linguistic approach needs to be merged with a multimodal approach. In this study systemic functional grammar and multimodal semiotics are applied to ten skin care advertisements by Elizabeth Arden from 1920-2013. The aim is to investigate how the relationship between skin care companies and their potential customers is constructed through the use of language and images in skin care advertisements. Furthermore, the study aims to analyze whether and how the relationship between skin care companies and customers change over time. The findings indicate that the reader is constructed as unequal to Elizabeth Arden. The results also show a longitudinal difference in that the reader and the writer are constructed as closer in earlier advertisements and more distant in later advertisements. The language is also less demanding in recent years. Furthermore, the findings show that later skin care advertisements, unlike earlier advertisements, refer to science. The change might be an indication that societal and consumer values are evolving. Hence, the result might reflect societal changes.

This study explores the impact of a pedagogic intervention grounded in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014) designed to support language learners’ development of their English argumentative writing skills. The predominance of argumentative writing in school curricula and language assessment reflects the importance of helping language learners master this text-type in order for them to succeed in academic settings. This pedagogic intervention drew specifically on the Appraisal system of SFL to make explicit to students the interpersonal and evaluative language resources they can use to establish authoritative and intersubjective positioning as key means of achieving the overall purpose of argumentative texts. The study documents the impact of explicating to students appraisal resources during class instruction and helping them make more informed language choices as they engage with the information presented in their texts, and shape the interaction with their readers. The study drew on quantitative data stemming from students’ writing tasks and qualitative data in the form of reflection tasks and a research journal to explore the extent to which students’ understanding and use of different appraisal resources could be positively affected by the pedagogic intervention at the heart of this study. The analysis of the findings suggests that the intervention was successful in helping students familiarize themselves with and incorporate appraisal language to effectively convey their intended meaning in the composition of their argumentative texts. The findings also suggest that the teaching intervention contributed to students’ increased awareness of the range of lexicogrammatical choices available to them when they write as reflected in students’ skillful use of these resources in genre-specific ways. This included using appraisal resources to develop well-supported claims, in addition to establishing a critical authoritative position. Discussion of these findings focuses on the value of this type research on the pedagogic applications of the SFL framework as a way of advancing our understanding of how to better scaffold language learners and help them gain greater explicit control of the language resources necessary to successfully construct academic texts. As such, this study argues for the potential affordances of teaching pedagogies grounded in SFL theory in supporting language learners’ academic writing development. This study presents a case for the ability of SFL-informed pedagogies to empower students as writers by offering them new ways of looking at the writing process and using language to engage in advanced acts of meaning-making.