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"Understanding the meaning of support in the Australian disability cont" by Shoshana Dreyfus and Louisa Smith

In the past four years, Australia has undergone a major change in the way it funds supports and services for people living with disability. Part of this change has, of course, occurred in the discourse of disability, and the emergence of the term “support” rather than “care” has been a feature of this discursive shift. In this paper we used aspects of Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) theory to analyse how the term “support” is used in a seven key policy and program documents related to disability written over a ten-year period. We aim to understand what is meant by the term “support” and how its meaning is built up, deepened and made more complex over time through its use in Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme. The findings reveal that the meaning of support is relatively flexible, and as such develops meaning and complexity over time, reflecting a shift from a values and rights-based understanding of the concept to the operationalisation of the term ....

Australia National Disability Insurance Scheme , Systemic Functional Linguistic , National Disability Insurance , Discourse Analysis , Systemic Functional Linguistics ,

"Languaging critical thinking as a process of meaning making in student" by Mahmud Layan Hutasuhut

This thesis provides a linguistic theorisation of critical thinking manifested in student argumentative writing. Literature has indicated that much of the work on critical thinking focuses on concepts from the critical thinking movement. These concepts draw on philosophical, cognitive psychological and educational theoretical foundations, which are largely hypothetical and are often contested. The literature, however, has also fundamentally conceived argumentation as an underlying principle of critical thinking, which involves skills in constructing a coherent line of reasoning, evaluating and examining differing perspectives on an issue, and establishing a stance with regard to these perspectives. Such conception becomes a basis for a linguistic focus in this study to provide a comprehensive account of how these aspects of critical thinking skills implicate the use of language in writing.
The theorisation of the important aspects of critical thinking was substantiated through a det ....

Systemic Functional Linguistic , Critical Thinking , Iscourse Semantics , Nterpersonal Meaning , Ystemic Functinoal Linguistics Sfl ,

""If it ain't broke, don't fix it": An Abductive and Contextual Explora" by Chritopher Savage

Objective: To create academic insights into how organisations approach and manage the maintenance of vendor-supplied information systems software. Approach: Three iterations of the Peircean Abduction methodology lead to the identification, conceptualisation, and application of new knowledge in vendor-supplied Information Systems (IS) maintenance deferral by means of undertaking a qualitative multiple-case study. The research goals are achieved through the appropriation and application of theories from Peircean Abduction and Systemic Functional Linguistics. Research questions: The following abductive statement is created through the application of the Peircean Abduction methodology: The surprising observation, “some organisations, having invested in a vendor-supplied IS software solution, defer the implementation of vendor-supplied maintenance”, is made; However, if “the existence of deterrents to maintenance, requiring a trigger event before the implementation of maintenance” w ....

Peircean Abduction , Information Systems , Systemic Functional , Systemic Functional Linguistic , Systems Thinking ,

"Supporting Vietnamese EFL university students' development of argument" by Thanh Liem Dinh

Argumentative writing is necessary for academic success at tertiary level in both Anglophone and EFL contexts. Being able to argue in English in academic ways, however, presents significant challenges for EFL students, particularly those with low English proficiency levels. Many EFL students have little experience with written academic argument genres and rhetorical writing styles in English, and insufficient understanding of the value of ‘objective’ evaluative writing. Despite the challenges faced by EFL students in learning to argue in English, to date little research has focused on tracing EFL university-level students’ argumentative writing development, particularly their changes in discourse-semantic evaluative meaning-making resources, through a theoretically-informed literacy intervention. The research reported in this thesis examines the impact of a Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL)-informed genre writing intervention (Halliday, 1978; Martin & Rose, 2008) on the im ....

Republic Of , Martin Rose , Systemic Functional Linguistic , Argumentative Writing , Systemic Functional Linguistics ,

"The pragmatism of drawing context networks: Social hierarchy and socia" by David G. Butt, Alison Rotha Moore et al.

Linguistics has embraced the functional and contextual turn but, when building tools for systematic contextual description, we have not made as much use as we could of our own functional traditions. Rather, we have largely relied on the metaphors of law and rule, which do not adequately capture tensions between consistency and variability in how language and context relate to each other. Our aim in this paper is to show the economy and practicality of representing context as a pathway through a network, drawing on the network technique for mapping systems of grammatical choice introduced by Michael Halliday, and on its application to other linguistic strata first offered by Ruqaiya Hasan. The paper begins by outlining why alternative frameworks are needed for describing context-language relations. We then present a contextual network for one specific domain of the Systemic Functional Linguistic notion of Tenor, namely social distance, and use this to explore how different configuration ....

Michael Halliday , Ruqaiya Hasan , Systemic Functional Linguistic ,