MAKING MEANING USING SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS AND VISUAL GRAMMAR ANALYSIS: COMPARISON OF SOURCE TEXT AND TARGET TEXT REFLECTED IN THE MAIN CHARACTER OF GRAPHIC NOVEL V FOR VENDETTA

This research presents a project designed to investigate a systemic way of analyzing metafunctions’ shifts between source texts and target texts using systemic functional linguistic (SFL) collaborated with visual grammar (VS; systemic functional approach for images). The study tries to examine the correlation between verbal and visual systems and how it affects the making of meaning in graphic novel. The research is descriptive qualitative with embedded case study. The data is acquired from monologue and dialogue uttered by main character of the first graphic novel book V for Vendetta. Content analysis, questionnaire and focus group discussion are conducted to obtain necessity data. The results shows there are shifts in transitivity structure, lexical items, and clauses' interdependency undergo ideational metafunction, modality system and discourse marker shifts undergo interpersonal metafunction, thematic structures, cohesion devices, physical presentation shifts undergo textual metafunction. Also shifts in target text caused by context of visual structure in representational metafunction and compositional metafunction. Those shifts demonstrate meaning changed in target text and can be identified in each metafunctions. The metafunction representational and ideational deal with interpreting content, form, context and symbolized expression in graphic novel. The shifts in transitivity structure and lexical items are caused by intertextuality and the theatricality in the content, form, context and symbolized expression of V for vendetta graphic novel. Interpersonal metafunction relates with enacting social relation. Whereas textual and compositional metafunction deal with organizing text/images, contextualizing the narrative scope and build reading order

Grammatical metaphors in English

This article focuses on the concept of 'grammatical metaphor' as it has been introduced in the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. It first explains 'metaphor' in general, as it is traditionally known. In contrast to this, grammatical metaphor is explained as a grammatical resource in language. Two types of grammatical metaphor, ideational metaphor and interpersonal metaphor, are explained and illustrated

Museums as disseminators of niche knowledge: Universality in accessibility for all

Accessibility has faced several challenges within audiovisual translation Studies and gained great opportunities for its establishment as a methodologically and theoretically well-founded discipline. Initially conceived as a set of services and practices that provides access to audiovisual media content for persons with sensory impairment, today accessibility can be viewed as a concept involving more and more universality thanks to its contribution to the dissemination of audiovisual products on the topic of marginalisation. Against this theoretical backdrop, accessibility is scrutinised from the perspective of aesthetics of migration and minorities within the field of the visual arts in museum settings. These aesthetic narrative forms act as modalities that encourage the diffusion of ‘niche’ knowledge, where processes of translation and interpretation provide access to all knowledge as counter discourse. Within this framework, the ways in which language is used can be considered the beginning of a type of local grammar in English as lingua franca for interlingual translation and subtitling, both of which ensure access to knowledge for all citizens as a human rights principle and regardless of cultural and social differences. Accessibility is thus gaining momentum as an agent for the democratisation and transparency of information against media discourse distortions and oversimplifications

Theme and Rheme of Main Character Script in Hachiko Movie

This Study Deals with the Theme and Rheme of Main Character Script in Hachiko Movie. The Objective of the study are to find out the kinds of thematic progression that is used in Hachiko movie, to find out the kinds of Theme that is used in Hachiko movie, and to find out the dominant kinds of Theme that used in Hachiko movie. This study was conducted by using descriptive design (qualitative and quantitative method). The data were collected from the script movie of Hachiko the Dog Story. The data were analyzed by the Theme and Rheme. The findings found that there were two kinds of thematic progression those are used in Hachiko movie, they were 8 constant theme patterns and 4 linear theme patterns. There were 144 (37,01%) topical themes, 151 (38,81%) interpersonal themes and 94 (24,16%) textual themes. Unmarked theme 227 (61,51%) and marked theme 142 (38,48). Interpersonal theme dominated the Hachiko movie scripts which means that the theme was the assertive or confirmation of the previous theme, because theme of the sentence has relation with the previous sentence such as expected a response from addressee or provide speaker's comment, assessment or attitude towards the message . Unmarked theme dominated the Hachiko movie scripts which mean that the speaker utter the most typical / usual text. In the utterance the speaker put the subject and finite in front of the sentence as the main point of the text

THE FUNCTIONAL MEANING OF Tony Abbott “Indonesia should reciprocate tsunami aid by sparing Bali Nine pair”

Artikel berita yang digunakan dalam penulisan ini adalah pidato oleh Perdana Menteri Australia Tony Abbot. Artikel ini menceritakan bagaimana Australia bereaksi terhadap Pemerintah Indonesia mengenai hukuman mati yang dijatuhkan kepada penyelundup obat-obatan terlarang asal Australia. Metode yang digunakan dalam penulisan final project ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif yang sistemis, nyata dan akurat. Dalam pengumpulan data, penulis melakukan note taking, dalam artikel dari situs berita theguardian.com. Tujuan dalam penulisan project ini adalah untuk menemukan arti fungsional dalam artikel tersebut. Arti fungsional akan membantu pembaca meng-intrepetasikan artikel ini dengan tepat. Untuk menemukan arti fungsional dari setiap klausa dalam artikel ini, penulis menggunakan teori metafunction. Teori metafunction dibagi menjadi tiga bagian yaitu Ideational Meaning, Interpersonal Meaning dan Textual Meaning

Modelling the flow of discourse in a corpus of written academic English

Discourse studies attempt to describe how context affects text, and how text progresses from one sentence to the next. Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) offers a model of language to describe how information flow varies according to context and co-text through the Textual metafunction, especially using the functions of Participant Identification and Tracking, Theme and Information Structure. These systems were evaluated by assembling a corpus of academic texts and assessing their information flow. Results of the analysis of the three grammatical systems in the Textual Metafunction demonstrate significant patterns, or unmarked choices, where the participant, thematic and information systems combine to powerful effect. Where the systems are not aligned, there is a recognisable effect on the flow of information

The Use of Process in Juz Amma of Holy Quran

One aim of this article is to show through a concrete example how speech function and speech role used in Holy Quran. The texts were taken from the verses in Juz Amma of Holy Quran. All surahs in Juz Amma of Holy Quran were taken as the data by using dexcriptive qualitative method. The result shows that the six types of process are found in the verses in Juz Amma of Holy Quran. Material Process is dominantly used because many surahs in Juz Amma of Holy Quran contain about action, activity, things that are doing or happened physically, bodily, and materially

Layering in structural-functional grammars

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Textual Function in the Jakarta Post Editorials

This research deals with Theme and Rheme in Editorials texts of The Jakarta Post newspaper. The aims are to find out the optional element dominates the structure of theme in the editorials of The Jakarta Post newspaper and to describe where the optional dominant element occurs. The research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative method. The data were collected from three different editions of The Jakarta Post editorials which is publish on January 2014. The findings indicate that conjunction was an element dominantly used in textual theme because there were so many compound clauses and there were two or more clauses in coordination relation or dependency on another. In interpersonal theme, adjunct was an element dominantly used that is means that a prepositional phrase has its own internal structure containing complement within it and preposition is put at first position of a clause which is called Theme. Conjunction and adjunct were dominantly used when the editors tells their argumentation, comment and their assessment of the news, because of the using of colloquialism or spoken language in editorials of the Jakarta Post newspaper. Keyword : Theme, Rheme, Editoria