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The main purpose of this paper is to present the results of an investigation about functioning of tag questions in oral corpus of Chilean Spanish from a systemic-functional language perspective. The categories of interpersonal analysis are derived from the semantic-discursive and lexicalgrammatical strata. In the meaning stratum, the speech function and the semiotic commodity have been considered, while in the coding stratum, the clause modes and the location of the tag question in the clause have been considered. It is concluded that the tag question is a productive resource for the expression of interpersonal meanings in all speech functions. It is mostly integrated in moves that fulfill the role of 'give', while the main subject of negotiation is 'information'. Within the MOOD system, they are mostly integrated in final position of declarative clauses and to a lesser extent in imperative and interrogative clauses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper intends to present an analysis of two uses of adversative conjunction pero found in a Spanish written corpus in digital media. The theoretical-methodological apparatus used is the Functional Discourse Grammar - FDG (HENGEVELD; MACKENZIE, 2008). According to RAE (2009), pero is coordinative conjunction in which presents two opposing clauses. From the point of view of FDG, however, these two units configure Discourse Acts in an unequal relationship, which engender Concession rhetorical function. The speaker presents an Act to grant information in order to then present another Act that he considers arguably more relevant. Some of the uses found in this study are beyond that interpretation. The research universe consists of data collected from blogs and extracted from CORPES (Corpus del Español del Siglo XXI), from the Real Academia Española. It was verified that, besides being used between two Discourse Acts, it can also introduce Moves and also emphasize a Subact previously presented, being a valuable element for the speaker's argument. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this study we describe the use of aunque in Spanish narrative texts. We use Functional Discourse Grammar as a descriptive tool, without however going into technical details. The conjunction aunque is used for the expression of concessive and concessive conditional meanings, which can, globally, be distinguished through the use of the indicative in the former and that of the subjunctive in the latter case. In concessive sentences, aunque can modify descriptive or interactional apodoses. In the first case, the concessive clause acts as an adverbial modifier of either events or propositions, whereas in the second, the concessive clause modifies either a discourse act or a larger communicative entity, the so-called move. In conditional concessive contexts, the aunque protasis is of a scalar nature and can express real or unreal conditions. In addition to modifying eventive and propositional apodoses, the concessive conditional clause can express hypothetical minimal properties of events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article is to review the purpose and methodology behind systemic-functional linguistics (SFL) in relation to its relevance as a tool for the development of textual processes in higher education. To that end, the concepts of gender and registration are explored in a general way, as founding notions of systems theory, and the social uses of language are emphasized. The possibilities for work are then summarized from the standpoint of gender pedagogy as a field of permanent research. The idea is to improve the student's performance based on knowledge of the language in use, thus making it possible to democratize the knowledge in question. As a final point, the proposal of the Prodeac Group is analyzed, as a direct application of SFL in the Latin American context, noting the connection between functional grammar and the processes of comprehending and producing academic texts. The review highlights the need to open the field of study in SFL to an analysis of the multiplicity and variety of texts used in academic circles, as a contribution to the teaching of reading and writing at the college level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims at developing an expanded inventory of illocutionary functions that may be expressed directly through lexical elements. Such an inventory is a necessary tool in the creation of dictionaries that aim at providing information about the contextually adequate use of lexical items. The inventory is created in two different steps. First three different theoretical approaches to illocutionary acts are combined in order to arrive at a new classification. This classification is then refined by confronting it with a large corpus of lexical expressions from the variety of Spanish spoken in Medellin and surrounding. The result of this combined approach is a new classification of illocutionary functions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This artide presents the results of a study about the influence of sentence order in the construction of intersubjective meaning, particularly at the level of valorative logogenesis that derives from the form and frequency by which diverse actors, events and circumstances are presented in the Prologue of the Informe Valech (Valech Report), an official document of Human Rights in Chile. First, the research examines the sentence layout from 12 linear principles according to their nature, hierarchy and relationship. The results of this stage indicate that the linear appearance syntactically manifests processes of activation and desactivation of grammatical, cognitive, semantic and informative principles. Subsequently, these findings were interpreted discursively through the correlation of social actors, events and circumstances of the historicized event with linearizations described for each sentence of the corpus. The analysis demonstrated the presence of complex processes of interaction between linear parameters, which determine patterns of sentence layout that produce, first, the systematic des/topicality of the historicized elements and, secondly, an unequal aboutness' styles, all of which allows us to conclude that the sentence order should be considered among the strategies that construct appraisal in the discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Una entrevista con Frances Christie, profesor de lingüística en la Universidad de Melbourne y la Universidad de Sydney, se presenta. Cuando se le preguntó acerca de cómo comenzó su trabajo en la lingüística y la educación, dice que enseñan en las escuelas inglesas durante su visita a Inglaterra, y empezó a enseñar en Australia después de su regreso. Christie también habla sobre la importancia de la lectura para el desarrollo de la escritura en los estudiantes; y la importancia de la gramática funcional para aprender un idioma.

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This article seeks to analyze the subsystems that constitute the system of FINITENESS in Bribri in the frame of systemic-functional grammar of M.A.K. Halliday. Starting from the description of each subsystem, the author seeks to build a possible system of FINITENESS for the Bribri language. The issue of diminished transitivity in perfective negative clauses is also addressed from a systemic-functional perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the TRANSITIVITY system realized in verbal, existential and behavioural clauses of Bribri (Coroma's variation) according to Halliday's systemic-functional grammar (2004). The main objective is to describe the codification of the processes and participants associated with these types of clauses through the analysis of five Bribri texts. Since processes and participants are part of the TRANSITIVITY system (which includes the TYPE OF PROCESS and AGENCY subsystems), the present study also describes this system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyses the experiential metafunction realized in the material clauses of Bribri (Coroma's variation) according to Halliday's systemic-functional grammar (2004). The main objective is to describe the codification of material processes and their associated participants through the analysis of five Bribri texts. Since processes and participants are part of the TRANSITIVITY system (which includes the TYPE OF PROCESS and AGENCY subsystems), the present study describes this system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to analyze the structure of Mood and the system of MOOD in the clause as inter- change (interpersonal metafunction) according to Halliday's systemic functional grammar (2004). With regard to the paradigmatic system of MOOD (grammaticalization of the system of speech acts), the article analyses how grammatical categories (declaratives, interrogatives, imperatives), associated with socio-semantic ones (statements, questions, orders), are construed in four Bribri (Coroma's variation) texts. Finally, the article includes the analysis of syntagmatic Mood structure (Mood + Residue) of the bribri clause. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present work has two goals to accomplish; first of all, to apply the theoretical tools provided by the Functional Grammar perspective for the analysis of texts; and secondly, to attain an approximation to notions of genre and register. Thus, we will begin by exploring and analysing the theoretical and conceptual model proposed by such an approach in order to discover its possible applications to the Spanish system. To make a start, we will make some methodological considerations related to the study and development of the concepts and key ideas established by that perspective. Then we will try a comparative analysis of two excerpts where the similarities and differences detected by applying its triple outlook --experiential meanings that encode our experiences of the world; interpersonal meanings that allow us to interact with others; and textual meanings that organize previous elements to construct coherent and relevant messages-- are discussed. The corpus consists of two pieces of writing that have been selected because they share the same topic: the role of grammar. One of them has been extracted from a manual on prosody, orthography and grammar of the Spanish Language; the other is an excerpt taken from an interview with the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, conducted during a debate triggered by his speech at the First International Congress of the Spanish Language that took place in México in 1997. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]