Approaches to Systemic Functional Grammar - Convergence and Divergence - Gordon Tucker
1. Finding Complementarity in the Approaches of M.A.K.Halliday and Robin Fawcett
Approaches to Systemic Functional Grammar - Convergence and Divergence - Gordon Tucker
Jonathan J. Webster [+]
City University of Hong Kong
Description
The past 20 years or so have witnessed the discussion on the differences between the Sydney grammar and the Cardiff Grammar, as they are said to be two different registers or dialects in Systemic Functional Linguistics. Jonathan Webster's chapter aims to find complementarity in the approaches of M.A.K. Halliday and Robin Fawcett, as they represent these two models. The author investigates complementarities in these two approaches by looking at instantiation and stratification, among other things. The author points out that Halliday and Fawcett offer complementary perspectives on the phenomena they dub grammatical metaphor and incongruence respectively, and he agrees with Miriam Taverniers that Fawcett's algorithmic approach to grammatical metaphor is 'horizontal' while Halliday's is 'vertical'.