(Midterm Exam 1)

According to SFL, language is viewed as a network of interrelated systems or a set of choices for making meanings.

• TRUE

• FALSE

SFL considers grammar and lexis to work together in making meanings. What term is used to describe this combination?

• Semantics

• Phonology

• Syntax

• Lexicogrammar

According to SFL, meanings are expressed according to three broad metafunctions. What are these metafunctions?

• Ideational, interpersonal, and textual

• Syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic

• Phonological, morphological, and lexical

• Experiential, logical, and relational

The ideational metafunction in SFL is concerned with what?

• Relationships between participants

• Construction of text

• Actions, events, and states in the world

• How language is organized and functions in interaction
  
  

Answer explanation

According to SFL, the textual metafunction relates to the construction of text. What does it enable?

• Describing the purpose of communication

• Expressing relationships between interlocutors

• Creating cohesion and continuity in discourse

• Realizing ideational meanings

How are the three metafunctions related to each other in SFL?

• They are independent of each other

• They constrain each other

• They freely combine together

• They have no relationship

Which linguistic feature is typically associated with ideational meanings in SFL?

• Modal verbs

• Conjunctions

• Lexis

• Pronouns

What are the contextual parameters in SFL referred to as?

• Metafunctions, , tenor, and mode

• Leitmotifs, Field, tenor, and mode

• Field, tenor, and mode, metafunction

• Field, tenor, and mode

According to Hudson (1980), what does the tenor in SFL refer to?

• The purpose of communication

• The relations between participants

• How the language is organized

• The dynamic and evolving nature of context.

How are context and language related in SFL?

• Context shapes language

• Language shapes context

• They have no relationship

• They are fixed and deterministic phenomena