From discourse to grammar: a critical and functional genres approach
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https://doi.org/10.26512/les.v11i2.10471Keywords:
Critical Discourse Analysis; Systemic Functional Grammar; context of culture; context of situation; genres.Abstract
Critical Discourse analysis investigates the use of the language in the social institutions e how social differences are formed linguistically. It requires a grammatical theory which relates language and social context to explain the differences between the texts and relate them to the contexts of culture and context of situation. This aim aligns with the theoretical assumptions of the Sistemic Functional Grammar, which connects the linguistic to the social practices in their contexts of culture and context of situation and provides the conscience of the genres and their purposes in the several social domains. The systemic-functional approach implies a specialized language to describe and analyze the contextual meanings of several texts.
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