(Antonella Luporini)
26/09/2023 17:15 – 18:45
What is linguis:cs?
Is the study of language, how the language evolves during the years. Scien:fic study of a
language.
How can we scien:fically study a language?
Applying the scien:fic method to the study /analysis of a language: learning with a linguis:c
data.
There are many different branches: theories (cogni:ve, func:onal, historical etc.…) and
applica:ons (forensic linguis:c, discourse analysis etc....)
A metaphor is an expression in which we compare that are completely different. What we say
and think are different. This is a cogni:ve opera:on.
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Func:onal grammar is a sub area within the wider approach known as systema:c func:onal
linguis:c.
SFL focuses on language in use. We are talking about systems and func:ons of language.
It is a func:onal and descrip:ve approach. (guardare slide)
Seman:cs is the study of grammar and how these are realized in text.
The typical comparison that we can make in a language are the formal and func:onal
approach.
In formal approaches the structure are verbs, noun, adjec:ve etc. in func:onal grammar the
formal approach is important, but the meaning could be concerning.
The unit of analysis are the sentences, in func:onal grammar are the whole text.
For sentence construc:on there are some rules.
In a func:onal approach we rarely we find grammar mistakes, while in formal approach there
are correct and incorrect approach, but in func:onal we are not that much interested.
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Func:onal grammar is empowering, it is an appliable approach, transla:on studies, foreign
language, for example research, teaching, and learning,
The context: it’s the background that goes with the text, it goes with the text. Whenever we
always count its context, in which there are two types – context of culture and context of
situa:on.
Inside the context of culture, we can find the context of situa:on and then the language, now
English.
