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Abstract: The article presents some aspects of text explanation in the systemic functional model of language. In the systemic functional model text is conceived as a semantic unit created in the process of selection and realization of meaningful choices encoded in words and structures. This implies that in order to uncover what types of meanings are being encoded in the text one has to take inco account the lexico-grammatical patterns which realize it. The article treats some of the possibilities for the application of this model in a comparative text analysis involving texts in different languages. As an ilustration it presents a comparison of some aspects of the experimental function of two presidential speeches, one in English and one in Slovene. The comparison focuses on the distribution of different process types in both texts.
Keywords: functional grammar, English language, Slovene language, contrastive linguistics, comparative analyses, grammar, text analyses, lexical patterns, grammatical patterns, text explanation
Published in DKUM: 16.05.2017; Views: 1677; Downloads: 406
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