Educating for advanced foreign language capacities: Exploring the meaning-making resources of languages systemic-functionally

Advanced Language Learning: The Contribution of Halliday and Vygotsky

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 31-57

  Matthiessen, Christian M I M ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN LANGUAGE; MEANING MAKINGS;

EID: 85188138739     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

References (91)

1. Abelen, E., Redeker, G. and Thompson, S. A. (1993) ‘The rhetorical structure of US-American and Dutch fund-raising letters’. Text, 13, 323-50.
2. Bhatia, V. K. (2004) Worlds of Written Discourse. London: Continuum.
3. Butt, D. G. and Wegener, R. (in press) ‘The work of concepts: “context” and “metafunction” in the systemic functional model’, in R. Hasan, C. M. I. M. Matthiessen and J. Webster (eds), Volume 2.
4. Caffarel, A. (1992) ‘Interacting between a generalized tense semantics and register-specific semantic tense systems: a bi-stratal exploration of the semantics of French tense’. Language Sciences, 14, 385-418.
5. Caffarel. A. (2006) A Systemic Functional Grammar of French: From Grammar to Discourse. London: Continuum.
6. Caffarel, A., Martin, J. R. and Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (eds) (2004) Language Typology: A Functional Perspective. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
7. Capra, F. (1996) The Web of Life: A New Synthesis of Mind and Matter. London: Harper Collins.
8. Christie, F. (1997) ‘Curriculum macrogenres as forms of initiation into a culture’, in F. Christie and J. R. Martin (eds), pp. 134-60.
9. Christie, F. and Martin, J. R. (eds) (1997) Genre and Institutions: Social Processes in the Workplace and School. London: Cassell.
10. Eggins, S. (1990) ‘Conversational Structure: A Systemic-functional Analysis of Interpersonal and Logical Meaning in Multiparty Sustained Talk’. University of Svdnev: Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation.
11. Eggins, S. and Slade, D. (1997) Analysing Casual Conversation. London: Cassell.
12. Gell-Mann, M. (1994) The Quark and theJaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex. London: Abacus.
13. Ghadessv, M. (ed) (1999) Text and Context in Functional Linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.
14. Gibbons. J. and Markwick-Smith. V (1992) ‘Exploring the use of a systemic semantic description’. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2, 36-51.
15. Gregory, M. J. (1967) ‘Aspects of varieties differentiation’. Journal of Linguistics, 3. 177-98.
16. Halliday, M. A. K. (1966) ‘Some notes on “deep” grammar’. Journal’ of Linguistics, 2. 57-67.
17. Halliday, M. A. K. (1967) Intonation and Grammar in British English. The Hague: Mouton (Janua Linguarum Series Practica 48).
18. Halliday, M. A. K. (1973) Explorations m the Functions of Language. London: Edward Arnold.
19. Halliday, M. A. K. (1975) Learning How to Mean. London: Edward Arnold.
20. Halliday, M. A. K. (1976) System and Function in Language. London: Oxford University Press.
21. Halliday. M. A. K. (1977) ‘Ideas about language’, in M. A. K. Halliday, Aims and Perspectives in Linguistics. Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (Occasional Papers 1). 32-49.
22. Halliday, M. A. K. (1978) Language as Social Semiotic: The Social Interpretation of Language and Meaning. London and Baltimore: Edward Arnold and University’ Park Press.
23. Halliday, M. A. K. (1979) ‘Modes of meaning and modes of expression: types of grammatical structure and their determination by different semantic functions’, in D. J. Allerton, E. Carney and D. Holdcroft (eds), Function and Context in Linguistic Analysis: A Festschrift for William Haas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 57-79.
24. Halliday, M. A. K. (1980) ‘Three aspects of children’s language development: learning language, learning through language, learning about language’, in M. M. Haussler, D. S. Strickland and Y M. Goodman (eds), Oral and Written Language Development: Impact on Schools. (International Reading Association & National Council of Teachers of English: Proceedings from the 1979/1980 IMPACT Conferences), pp. 7-19.
25. Halliday, M. A. K. (1988) ‘On the language of physical science’, in M. Ghadessv (ed.), Registers of Written English: Situational Factors and Linguistic Features. London & New York: Pinter Publishers, pp. 162-78.
26. Halliday, M. A. K. (1992) ‘The notion of “context” in language education’, in T. Le and M. McCausland (eds), Interaction and Development: Proceedings of the International Conference, Vietnam, 30 March-1 April 1992. University of Tasmania: Language Education, pp. 1-26.
27. Halliday, M. A. K. (1993) ‘Towards a language-based theory of learning’. Linguistics and Education, 5, 93-116.
28. Halliday, M. A. K. (1995) ‘On language in relation to the evolution of human consciousness’, in S. Allén (ed.), Of Thoughts and Words: Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 92 ‘The relation between language and mind’, Stockholm, 8-12 August 1994. Singapore, River Edge NJ and London: Imperial College Press, pp. 45-84.
29. Halliday, M. A. K. (1996) ‘On grammar and grammatics’, in R. Hasan, C. Cloran and D. Butt (eds), Functional Descriptions: Theory into Practice. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 1-38.
30. Halliday, M. A. K, (2001) ‘On the grammatical foundations of discourse’, in R. Shaozeng, W. Guthrie and I. W. R. Fong (eds), Grammar and Discourse: Proceedings of the International Conference on Discourse Analysis, University of Macau (in conjunction with Tsinghua University, China), 16-18 October 1997. Macau: University of Macau Publication Centre, pp. 47-57.
31. Halliday, M. A. K, (2002) ‘Computing meanings: some reflections on past experience and present prospects’, in G. Huang and Z. Wang (eds), Discourse and Language Functions. Shanghai: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, pp. 3-25.
32. Halliday, M. A. K. (2003) The Language of Early Childhood. Volume 4: The Collected Works of M. A. K. Halliday, ed. by J. Webster. London: Continuum.
33. Halliday, M. A. K. and Greaves, W. S. (in press) Intonation in the Grammar of English. London: Equinox.
34. Halliday, M. A. K. and Hasan, R. (1985) Language, Context and Text: A Social Semiotic Perspective. Geelong, Australia: Deakin University Press.
35. Halliday, M. A. K. and Martin, J. R. (1993) Writing Science: Literacy and Discursive Power. London: Falmer.
36. Halliday, M. A. K. and Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (1999) Construing Experience through Meaning: A Language-based Approach to Cognition. London: Cassell.
37. Hallidav, M. A. K. and Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (2004) An Introduction to Functional Grammar (3rd rev. edn). London: Hodder Arnold.
38. Hallidav, M. A. K. and McDonald, E. (2004) ‘Metafunctional profile of the grammar of Chinese’, in A. Caffarel, J. R. Martin and C. M. I. M. Matthiessen (eds), pp. 305-96.
39. Hasan, R. (1980) ‘What’s going on: a dynamic view of context’, in J. E. Copeland and P. W. Davis (eds), The Seventh LACUS Forum. Columbia, SC: Hornbeam Press, pp. 106-21.
40. Hasan, R. (1984/1996) ‘The nurserv tale as a genre’, reprinted in Hasan (1996), pp. 51-72.
41. Hasan, R. (1985) ‘Meaning, context and text: fiftv years after Malinowski”, in j. D. Benson and W. S. Greaves (eds), Systemic Perspectives on Discourse. Norwood. NJ: Ablex, pp. 16-50.
42. Hasan, R. (1987) ‘The grammarian’s dream: lexis as most delicate grammar’, in M. A. K. Halliday and R. P. Fawcett (eds), New Developments in Systemic Linguistics: Theory and Description. London: Pinter, pp. 184-211.
43. Hasan, R. (1996) Ways of Saying: Ways of Meaning. Selected Papers of Ruqaiya Hasan. C. Cloran, D. Butt and G. Williams, eds. London: Cassell.
44. Hasan, R. and Martin, J. R. (eds) (1989) Language Development: Learning Language, Learning Culture. Meaning and Choice in Language: Studies for Michael Halliday. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
45. Hasan, R., Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. and Webster, J. (eds) (2005) Continuing Discourse on Language: A Functional Perspective. 2 volumes. London: Equinox.
46. Iedema, R., Feez, S. and White, P. (1994) Media Literacy. (Write it right industry research report no. 2.) Sydney: NSW, Department of Education, Disadvantaged Schools Program Metropolitan East.
47. Kim, M. (in preparation) ‘Application of systematic-functional grammar-based text analvsis in translator education: A case study of English/Korean translation’. Sydney: Macquarie University. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis.
48. Lado, R. (1957) Linguistics across Cultures: Applied Linguistics for Language Teachers. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.
49. Lantolf, J. P. and Thorne, S. L. (2006) Sociocultural Theory and the Genesis of Second Language Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
50. Li, E. (forthcoming) A Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese. London: Continuum.
51. Martin, J. R. (1988) ‘Grammatical conspiracies in Tagalog: family, face and fate - with reference to Benjamin Lee Whorf, in M. J. Cummings, W. S. Greaves and J. D. Benson (eds), Linguistics in a Systemic Perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 243-300.
52. Martin, J. R. (1992) English Text: System and Structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
53. Martin, J. R. (1994) ‘Macro-genres: the ecology of the page’. Network 21. Newsletter with news, views and reviews in systemic linguistics and related areas, pp. 29-52, available on line at http://minerva.ling.mq.edu.au/Resources/Network/Network.html
54. Martin, J. R. (1996) ‘Tvpes of structure: deconstructing notions of constituency in clause and text’, in E. Hovy and D. Scott (eds), Burning Issues in Discourse: A Multi-disciplinary Perspective. Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 39-66.
55. Martin, J. R. (1997) ‘Analysing genre: functional parameters’, in F. Christie and J. R. Martin (eds), pp. 3-39.
56. Martin, J. R. (2003) ‘Making history: grammar for interpretation’, in j. R. Martin and R. Wodak (eds), Re/reading the Past: Critical and Functional Perspectives on Time and Value. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 19-57.
57. Martin, J. R. and Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (1991) ‘Systemic typology and topology’, in F. Christie (ed.), Literacy in Social Processes: Papers from the Inaugural Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference, Deakin University, Januarv 1990. Darwin: Centre for Studies of Language in Education, Northern Territory University, pp. 345-83.
58. Martin, J. R. and Rose, D. (2003) Working with Discourse. London: Continuum.
59. Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (1991) ‘Lexico(grammatical) choice in text-generation’, in C. Paris, W. Swartout and W. C. Mann (eds), Natural Language Generation in Artificial Intelligence and Computational Linguistics. Boston: Kluwer, pp. 249-92.
60. Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (1993a) ‘Register in the round: diversity in a unified theory of register analysis’, in M. Ghadessy (ed.), London: Pinter, pp. 221-92.
61. Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (1993b) ‘The object of study in cognitive science in relation to its construal and enactment in language’, in Language as Cultural Dynamic (Special issue of Cultural Dynamics VI.1-2: pp. 187-243, ed. M. A. K. Halliday).
62. Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (1995) Lexicogrammatical Cartography: English Systems. Tokyo: International Language Sciences Publishers.
63. Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (1998) ‘Construing processes of consciousness: from the commonsense model to the uncommonsense model of cognitive science’, in j. R. Martin and R. Veel (eds), Reading Science: Research, Popular Culture, Industry and Schooling. London: Routledge, pp. 327-57.
64. Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (2002) ‘Combining clauses into clause complexes: a multi-faceted view’, in j. Bybee and M. Noonan (eds), Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in Honor of Sandra A. Thompson. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 237-322.
65. Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (2004) ‘Descriptive motifs and generalizations’, in A. Caffarel, J. R. Martin and C. M. I. M. Matthiessen (eds), pp. 537-673.
66. Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (2006) ‘Frequency profiles of some basic grammatical systems: an interim report’, in S. Hunston and G. Thompson (eds), System and Corpus: Exploring Connections. London: Equinox, pp. 103-42.
67. Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (in press a) ‘The “architecture” of language according to systemic functional theory: developments since the 1970s’, in R. Hasan, C. M. I. M. Matthiessen and J. Webster (eds).
68. Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (in press b) ‘Lexicogrammar in systemic functional linguistics: descriptive and theoretical developments in the “IFG” tradition since the 1970s’, in R. Hasan, C. M. I. M. Matthiessen and J. Webster (eds).
69. Matthiessen, C. M. I. M., Butt, D. G., Cleirigh, C, Lukin, A. and Nesbitt, C. (2005) ‘Welcome to Pizza Hut: a case study of multistratal analysis’, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 19, 123-50.
70. Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. and Halliday, M. A. K. (1997) ‘Systemic functional grammar: a first step into the theory’. Available online: http://minerva.ling.mq.edu.au/resource/VirtuallLibrary/Publications/sfg_firststep/SFG%20intro%20New.html.
71. Mohan, B. A. (1979) ‘Relating language teaching and content teaching’. TESOL Quarterly, 13, 171-82.
72. Mohan, B. A. (1986) Language and Content. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
73. Mohan, B. A. (1989) ‘A situation-based approach to language socialization’. Word, 40, 99-117.
74. Mohan, B. A. and Zingzi, H. (2002) ‘Assessing the integration of language and content in mandarin as a foreign language classroom’. Linguistics and Education, 13, 405-33.
75. Nanri, K. (1993) ‘An attempt to synthesize two systemic contextual theories through the investigation of the process of the evolution of the discourse semantic structure of the newspaper reporting article’. University of Sydney: Unpublished Ph.D. thesis.
76. Ortega, L. and Byrnes, H. (eds) (2007) The Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2 Capacities. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
77. Painter, C. (1999) Learning through Language in Early Childhood. London: Cassell.
78. Rose, D. (2001) The Western Desert Code: An Australian Cryptogram-mar. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
79. Steiner, E. (1991) A Functional Perspective on Language, Action and Interpretation. Berlin New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
80. Stutterheim, von C. and Carroll, M. (2006) ‘The impact of grammatical temporal categories on ultimate attainment in L2 learning’, in H. Byrnes, H. Weger-Guntharp and K. A. Sprang (eds), Educating for Advanced Foreign Language Capacities: Constructs, Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, pp. 40-53.
81. Swales, J. (1990) Genre Analysis: English in an Academic Research Setting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
82. Teruya, K. (in press) Systemic Functional Grammar of Japanese. 2 volumes. London: Continuum.
83. Trujillo Sáez, F. (2001) ‘An analysis of argumentative texts for contrastive rhetoric’, in D. Levey, M. A. Losey and M. A. González (eds), English Language Teaching: Changing Perspectives in Context. Cádiz: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cádiz, pp. 493-505.
84. Tucker, G. H. (1997) The Lexicogrammar of Adjectives: A Systemic Functional Approach to Lexis. London: Cassell.
85. Unsworth, L. (1995) ‘How and Why: Recontextualizing Science Explanations in School Science Books’. Sydney University: Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation.
86. Ur, P. (1996) A Course in Language Teaching: Practice and Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
87. Veel, R. (1997) ‘Learning how to mean - scientifically speaking: apprenticeship into scientific discourse in the secondary school’, in F. Christie and J. R. Martin (eds) . pp. 161-95.
88. Wells, G. (1999) Dialogic Inquiry: Toward a Sociocultural Practice and Theory of Education. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
89. Whorf, B. L. (1956) Language, Thought and Reality, edited by J. B. Carroll. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
90. Williams, G. (2005) ‘Grammatics in schools’, in R. Hasan, C. M. I. M. Matthiessen and J. Webster (eds), pp. 281-310.
91. Wu, C. (2000) ‘Modelling Linguistic Resources’. Sydney: Macquarie University. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis.