Systemic Functional Linguistics

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Context of Culture

How language becomes recurrent in a given culture and how the self tries to develop and improve its use.

Genre

A set of communicative goals that communicate, through different skills or strategies, social outcomes.

The selection of all the text-types and the stages of a text.

Context of Situation

How language responds to a specific purpose

Register

The configuration that affects language in topic, social relations, and language/themaic organization

Mode

The channel through language is exposed: either written or spoken

Tenor

The social relationships of language being used among the participants and the role of the types of language

Field

The topic in discussion and the idealogical position of the self

Metafunctions

Language responds to three language patterns with three different meanings

Textual

Language set in stages and composition

Interpersonal

Language accomplishing social relations among people

Ideational

Language being exposed to reality

Systemic Functional Linguistics

A theory of language that focuses on language as a set of linguistic choices that serve for a function.