Facultad de Educacin

Pedagoga en Ingles
Lingstica Aplicada I

Prof. Carolina Santander

M.A.K. Halliday
Paper :1961
Founder University
of Sidney.
A grammarian.

Systemic

A network of systems, or interrelated

sets of options for making meaning

 Functional

Language is as it is because of what it

has evolved to do.

Language is metafunctionally organized.

The raison d'tre of language is meaning
in social life.

Grammatical structure
Language

A choice
Meaning potential
Mood

E. g.
English

Transitivity

Theme

Lexical set

Open system

Semantic components
Ideational component
2. Interpersonal component
3. Textual function
1.

The speaker`s meaning potential as an

observer.

The content function of language.

Language encodes the cultural

experience.

Speakers encode their own personal

experience

It represents the speaker`s meaning

potential.

Language as doing something

The speaker intrudes himself into the

context of situation.

Resources for enabling the Ideational

component and the Interpersonal
component to come together in
coherent text.
The speaker`s text-forming potential.

Language is a part of everyday life and

through the childs close relations with
parents, siblings and other constant
figures
Learning language
Learning through language
Learning about language

A process of construction made up as a

three-layered model.

Semantic
Lexicogrammatical
Graphophonic

Learning through language refers to

language in the construction of reality: how
we use language to build up a picture of the
world in which we live.

The outside language

Imagination

The inside language

Consciousness

Much of our learning about language is

concerned with register variation,
language and society and different
media of expression within a language

Field
Tenor
Mode

What the content of the text is actually

about. Its function of language is
ideational as it puts forward information
as to what ideas the author is trying to
get across.

The relationship between the

speaker/writer and the listener/reader.
This is an interpersonal metafunction as
the speaker is communicating to the
listener either through informal or formal
language.

Which media is used to convey the

message of the text. This is called the
textual metafunction.