STEP #1 Systemic Functional Linguistics is: a social theory of language an approach to language that considers language as a SOCIAL (to communicate) SEMIOTIC (there's meaning behind) SYSTEM. Language metafunctions-----> Ideational, Interpersonal, Textual. Language is a social construction which needs to be contextualized. It is not an individual process. Language has three different metafunctions: 1- Interpersonal: To enact social relationships To cooperate form bonds Negotiate Ask for things Instruct 2- Textual: To link complex ideas together into cohesive and coherent ways of information. 3- Ideational: To talk about experience, people and things, their actions and relationships, places, time or circumstances in which events occur.
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