Probing the Concept of Choice in the Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics: A Critical Investigative Theoretical Approach
| Autor: | Cocou André DATONDJI |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />French |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Ziglôbitha, Iss Spécial 5 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2708-390X 2709-2836 |
| Popis: | Abstract : This article has attempted an investigative theoretical review of the concept of choice as a pivotal component in M.A.K. Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The particular motivation for this research work springs from the simultaneous incongruous recognition of the central role of choice in SFL and the scarcity of insightful literature on its nature and functioning. Taking from this observation, the reading of the ground-breaking works by various authors published under the title Systemic Functional Linguistics: Exploring choice (Fontaine, Barlet and O’Grady, 2013) served as a major standpoint to browse through leading aspects of choice in SFL. Among such aspects are the meaning of Halliday’s systemic functional theory, the concept of choice in SFL, an attempt of locating choice along the paradigmatic and syntagmatic axes of meaning construction, the controversy over the conscious or unconscious pattern of choice in SFL, and the marking out of the contextual constraints to choice. While the article mostly takes a reviewing and explanatory perspective, it also includes a critical feed-in as far as the controversy on the consciousness or unconsciousness status of choice in SFL is concerned. Actually, while a large explanation tends to characterize choice as subconscious or unconscious, a deeper and more balanced investigation by Fawcett (2013:124) reveals the unsaid part of an ideological opposition between Chomsky and Halliday’s perspectives on language and recognizes the cognitive feature of the choosing process. |
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