Browsing by Author "Quiroz, Beatriz"

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    Actividades de escritura en un texto escolar de lenguaje y comunicación : un análisis lingüístico de cómo se orienta la producción escrita de relatos en cuarto año básico
    (2015) Andrade Benavides, Lorena; Quiroz, Beatriz; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Facultad de Letras
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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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    La construcción inicial de campos especializados : una aproximación interestratal del lenguaje disciplinar en respuestas a preguntas abiertas de estudiantes universitarios de primer año de ciencias sociales y humanidades
    (2020) Medina Campos, Basthian Martín; Quiroz, Beatriz; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Facultad de Letras
    Esta investigación tiene como objetivo general Caracterizar, desde un punto de vista semántico-discursivo, la construcción del campo de la Literatura y Sociología en respuestas a pregunta abiertas producidas por estudiantes universitarios de primer año desde la perspectiva de la Lingüística Sistémico Funcional (en adelante, LSF)1. Para esto, se describen los tipos de entidades, figuras y secuencias (Hao, 2015, 2018; Quiroz, 2018) que configuran el campo de ambas disciplinas. Desde esta perspectiva, la construcción del campo disciplinar es observada a través de su expresión en el estrato semántico-discursivo ideacional.
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    Convenciones de notación sistémica
    (2016) Quiroz, Beatriz
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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
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    Interpersonal Grammar in Spanish
    (Cambridge University Press, 2021) Quiroz, Beatriz
    This chapter develops a carefully reasoned analysis of Spanish resources enacting the negotiability of propositions and proposals. Following a review of the ways in which English and French structure the negotiability of moves in conversation, the chapter turns to Spanish – demonstrating that it is the Predicator function, realised by verbal group resources, that manages the negotiability of the clause (with respect to those resources ‘most at risk’ in the exchange). The chapter shows that functions such as Subject or Finite have no place in the interpersonal grammar of a Spanish clause and closes with an overview of basic negotiatory structures in Romance languages, from the perspective of functional language typology.
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    Systemic Functional Grammar: a text-based description of English, Spanish and Chinese
    (2023) Martin, J.R.; Quiroz, Beatriz; Wang, Pin
    Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a usage-based theory of language, founded on the assumption that language is shaped entirely by its various functions in the contexts in which it used. The first of its kind, this book advances SFL by applying it comparatively to English, Spanish and Chinese. By analysing English alongside two other, typologically very different major world languages, it shows how SFL can effectively address two central issues in linguistics – namely typology and universals. It concentrates in particular on argumentation, carefully explaining how descriptions of nominal group, verbal group and clause systems and structures are motivated, and draws on examples from key texts which display a full range of ideational, interpersonal and textual grammar resources. By working across three world languages from a text-based perspective, and demonstrating how grammar descriptions can be developed and improved, the book establishes the foundations for a groundbreaking functional approach to language typology.
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    The interpersonal and experiential grammar of Chilean Spanish : Towards a principled Systemic-Functional description based on axial argumentation.
    (2013) Quiroz, Beatriz; Martin, J.R.; University of Sydney
    This thesis provides a description of the experiential and interpersonal lexicogrammar of Spanish based on system-structure relations. The theoretical dimension of axis is used to bring together relevant semiotic dimensions, including metafunction, stratification and rank. Importantly, axial relations are used to systematically relate the SFL theoretical architecture and the description of Spanishspecific patterns. This study examines key clause systems of MOOD and POLARITY within the interpersonal metafunction, and PROCESS TYPE within the experiential component of the ideational metafunction. The account of the interpersonal grammar of Spanish concerns clause contrasts used by speakers for the enactment of speech roles and the negotiation of semiotic commodities. The trinocular approach, ‘from above’, ‘from around’ and ‘from below’, shows that the main structural function at stake in interpersonal clause types is the Predicator, realised by the verbal group alone. The centrality of the verbal group leads to an exploration of relevant systems at group rank, including those systems organising selections in temporal, modal and personal deixis. The description of experiential grammar of Spanish deals with resources for the linguistic construal of the internal and external experience of the world. The review of material, mental and relational clauses types reveals specific and complex configurational patterns that need to be addressed systematically. Therefore, orbital relations in clause structure are first explored in depth, with the verbal group emerging as a key resource for the identification of cryptogrammatical patterns. The description then sharpens the focus on the grammar of Spanish mental processes, with special attention to the nature of inherent participant roles, their relations with kinds of phenomenality and the configurational relations they enter into. Perception, reaction and cognition mental subtypes are accounted for, along with their specific potential for additional participants. The key contribution of the study is the articulation of an explicit system-structure heuristic that allows the exploration of Spanish grammar in its own terms. Descriptive work developed in this way frees argumentation from appeals to authority, such as ‘canonical’ texts centred in the organisation of English, as well as from notional definitions of systemic and structural categories. Crucially, it offers promising perspectives for the development of a rich and integrated description of Spanish that reveals its specific forms of organisation and can be systematically connected to the study of patterns in texts.
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    Towards a systemic profile of the Spanish MOOD
    (2011) Quiroz, Beatriz