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Ideational Metafunction

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 Ideational Metafunction 1. Definition of Ideational Metafunction The Ideational Metafunction is one of the three metafunctions of language proposed by Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday in his Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) model. It is primarily concerned with how language represents the world including both the external physical world and the internal world of thoughts, emotions, and perceptions. “The ideational metafunction is the function for construing human experience. It is through this function that language reflects and constructs our mental picture of reality.” — Halliday & Matthiessen (2014), An Introduction to Functional Grammar, 4th ed. It allows us to use language to express content, processes, and our experiences. It answers the question: "What is happening?", "Who is involved?", "Under what circumstances?" 2. Core Components of the Ideational Metafunction The ideational metafunction is realized through two interrel...
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Coherence and Cohesion

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Coherence & Cohesion A. Coherence 1. Definition of Coherence Coherence refers to the logical and semantic connectedness that makes a text or spoken discourse meaningful and unified. It is not merely about the grammar or sentence correctness ( cohesion ), but rather about how ideas relate to one another and to the context, forming a consistent message. ·        Brown & Yule (1983) define coherence as “everything fitting together well.” ·        Halliday & Hasan (1976) distinguish coherence (meaning) from cohesion (surface features). While cohesion is visible through linguistic markers, coherence is more abstract and depends on the interpretation of ideas. 2. Types of Coherence 1.      Personal Pronouns Used to replace nouns and avoid repetition. Person Singular Plural 1st person I, me we, us 2nd person ...
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