Young Lynne, Harrison Claire (Editors). Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis: Studies in Social Change

Continuum, 2004. — x, 306 pages. — (Open Linguistics). — ISBN: 0-8264-6773-3 / 0-8264-6774-1.The papers in Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis: Studies in Social Change were originally presented at the 28th International Systemic Functional Congress. Each paper expands on the theme of the Congress: ‘Interfaces: Systemic Functional Grammar and Critical Discourse Analysis’ by examining a broad range of current social changes. The volume begins by focusing on theoretical issues that arise from social, political, and economic transformations, and then presents studies of the ways in which such transformations affect national and institutional identity.Theoretical Section
Analysing Discursive Variation
Predication, Propagation, and Mediation: SFL, CDA, and the Inculcation of Evaluative-Meaning Systems
Mapping Distinction: Towards a Systemic Representation of Power in Language
Role Prescriptions, Social Practices, and Social Structures: A Sociological Basis for the Contextualization of Analysis in SFL and CDA
Applied Section: National Identity
Critical Discourse Analysis in Researching Language in the New Capitalism: Overdetermination, Transdisciplinarity, and Textual Analysis
Prolegomena to a Discursive Model of Malaysian National Identity
Celebrating Singapore’s Development: An Analysis of the Millennium Stamps
The Representation of Social Actors in the Globe and Mail during the Break-up of the Former Yugoslavia
Applied Section: Institutional Identity
Authority and Its Role in the Pedagogic Relationship of Schooling
The Principal’s Book: Discursively Reconstructing a Culture of Teaching and Learning in an Umlazi High School
Representations of Rape in the Discourse of Legal Decisions
Bureaucratic Discourse: Writing in the ‘Comfort Zone’
Charismatic Business Leader Rhetoric: From Transaction to Transformation
Ideological Resources in Biotechnology Press Releases: Patterns of Theme/Rheme and Given/New
We have the Power - Or do We: Pronouns of Power in a Union Context