Systemic functional grammar

Cognitive psychology is the study of human mental processes that occur within the mind. It looks at such internal processes such as, memory, perception and attention. It came about in the 1950’s as a result of the behaviourist approach being flawed; internal mental processes cannot be observed. Therefore, from this an alternative method of looking at the physiological side of the brain had to emerge. Cognitive neuroscience was then born to identify the neural mechanisms, which are responsible…

oxygenated hemoglobin increases the MR signal but because it displaces the deoxygenated hemoglobin that had been suppressing the MR signal intensity . The change in the MR signal, because of the neuronal activity is termed as Hemodynamic Response (HDR). Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a technique used to visualize…

Following the introduction of the brain-disease model of addiction, proponents and opponents have emerged to argue for or against a neurocentric view of addiction and the importance of brain circuitry in treating addiction. The following discussion will discuss the societal pros and cons of labeling addiction a brain disease and evaluate whether brain circuitry is necessary for the treatment of addiction in order to illuminate the benefits and drawbacks of the brain-disease model for individuals…

The article I chose to explore and summarize for this assignment was ‘Voluntary attention modulates fMRI activity in human MT-MST’, by O’Craven, K.M., Rosen, B.R., Kwong, K.K., Triesman, A., & Savoy, R.L. The basic theory behind this study is that the visual system receives copious amounts of information. Attention permits the visual system to pinpoint a “subset” of that information for further processing and attention, dependent on either the properties of the stimulus (bottom up processing) or…

Another essential issue in the Systemic Functional Linguistics is the three aspects of context of the register. According to Thompson (2013:40), register is defined as “certain recognizable configurations of linguistic resources in contexts”. In Halliday’s view, tenor, field, mode are able to describe aspects of language within texts. There seems to be a slight correlation with the three metafunctions, as field is concerned with the topic of the discourse like experiential. In the previous…

instigated based on the conversation approach are turn taking (Allwright, 1980), code switching, and false starts and hesitations in routine conversations. Proponents of this approach are believed to be governed by the principle of structural and functional linguistic. They seemed to be concerned with the speech acts and functions one can do through discourse (Edwards and Westgate, 1994). Cevasco and Broek (2013) regard discourse comprehension as a fundamental element of learning process and…

sharing meaning through interaction. Noam Chomsky believed that the human infant was born pre-programmed to work out the rules of speech. He stated a person had to be rule governed if people are to be able to understand. He viewed, language as systemic-functional between infant and caregiver in the first six month of life as being crucial. Marion Whitehead declares to us that human verbal language is a systematic and symbolic means of communication. He says that Semiotics is made up of the…

Opera as an example, this paper will firstly explore through the officially published video the in depth meaning expressed by the non-textual information including actions of actors, sounding and lightening in the stage by the theory provided in The Grammar of Visual Design written by Kress and Leeuwen and the theory of sound montage. After well comprehending the meaning of the song, the Pentathlon Principles of Peter Low will be used to assess the existed Chinese version, which will be followed…

Linguistic/Verbal Intelligence (LI) Gardner (1983) proposes LI as the intelligence of using words appropriately to make meaningful written and spoken forms of language. To him, LI is "the capacity to follow rules of grammar, and, on carefully selected occasion, to violate them" (p. 77). This intelligence emerges early in life, and involves a number of inseparable elements including the ability for doing syntactic analyses, gaining literacy, and language learning (Gardner…