Browsing by Author "Martin, J. R."

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    Chapter 7 : Functional language typology : a discourse semantic perspective 1
    (Routledge, 2019) Quiroz, Beatriz; Martin, J. R.; Martin, J. R.; Doran, Y. J.; Figueredo, Giacomo
    Butler (2005: 4), in one of his many overviews of the major tenets of ‘functionalism,’ argues that “a functional theory must take fully into account the essential connection between language and (a) cognition and (b) the social and cultural context of language use.” What tends to be elided in these discussions is the place of co-textual relations as we attempt to interface (1) grammar and cognition or (2) grammar and social context. In this chapter we will address this elision from the perspective of discourse semantics, as developed in Systemic Functional Linguistic theory (hereafter SFL). In particular we will focus on some typological issues arising from consideration of the systems of ideation, conjunction, identification, periodicity, appraisal and negotiation as we try to understand how language has been shaped by its use.
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    Experiential cryptotypes : reasoning about process type 1
    (Routledge, 2019) Quiroz, Beatriz; Martin, J. R.; Doran, Y. J.; Figueredo, Giacomo
    Conceptualizing how language construes experience has been a pervasive thread through the modern history of linguistics. This chapter explores how we can describe languages models of experience through a focus on the reasoning underlying an explicit account of process types in SFL. It takes seriously the claim developed through Whorf, Gleason, Halliday and Davidse that, cross-linguistically, clausal configurations are based on ‘covert or cryptogrammatical patterns that do not necessarily maintain any explicit markings. In doing so, it makes clear a method based on the interdependency of system and structure, known as axial argumentation, that enables description to move beyond unsystematic interpretations of the meanings of isolated items such as work classifying verb types based on their ‘lexical meaning. In doing so, this method offers a path toward responsibly accounting for the agnation patterns, structural configurations and discourse semantic realizations that underpin grammatical organization. This approach is illustrated by exploring the cryptogrammar of ‘sensing in Chilean Spanish, with a particular focus on the covert patterns that are key for distinguishing mental processes from other experiential types in this language.
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    Functional language typology: Systemic Functional Linguistic perspectives
    (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) Martin, J. R.; Quiroz, Beatriz