Genre, Ideology and Intertextuality
A Systemic Functional Perspective
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This paper considers the relationship among three hierarchies in systemic functional linguistics, realisation, instantiation and individuation, focussing on how these can be used to interpret genre, intertextuality and ideology. The discussion considers four related war stories, especially with respect to appraisal analysis, and argues that a complementarity of hierarchies is needed to interpret their variously interested readings.
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Christie, F. and Martin, J. R. (eds) (1997) Genre and Institutions: social processes in the workplace and school. (Open Linguistics Series) London: Pinter.
Cloran, C. (2000) Socio-semantic variation: different wordings, different meanings. In L. Unsworth (ed.) Researching Language in Schools and Communities: functional linguistic perspectives 152–183. London: Cassell.
Fairclough, N. (2003) Analysing Discourse: textual analysis for social research. London: Routledge.
Firth, J. R. (1957) A synopsis of linguistic theory, 1930–1955. Studies in Linguistic Analysis 1–31. (Special volume of the Philological Society) London: Blackwell. Reprinted in F. R. Palmer (ed.) (1968) Selected Papers of J R Firth, 1952–1959 168–205. London: Longman.
FitzSimons, P. (2004) Kokoda. Sydney: Hodder.
Gibbons, J. (2003) Forensic Linguistics: an introduction to language in the justice system. Oxford: Blackwell.
Graham, P., Keenan, T. and Dowd, A.-M. (2004) A call to arms at the end of history: a discourse-historical analysis of George W. Bush’s declaration of war on terror. Discourse and Society 15(2–3): 199–222.
Halliday, M. A. K. and Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (1999) Construing Experience through Language: a language-based approach to cognition. London: Cassell.
Halliday, M. A. K. and Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (2004) An Introduction to Functional Grammar. (3rd edition) London: Arnold.
Ham, P. (2004) Kokoda. Sydney: HarperCollins.
Hasan, R. (1996) Ways of Saying: ways of meaning. Selected Papers of Ruqaiya Hasan. Edited by C. Cloran, D. Butt and G. Williams. (Open Linguistics Series) London: Cassell.
Hood, S. and J. R. Martin (2005) Invoking attitude: the play of graduation in appraising discourse. In R. Hasan, C. M. I. M. Matthiessen and J. Webster (eds) Continuing Discourse on Language. London: Equinox.
Kress, G. (2003) Literacy in the New Media Age. London: Routledge.
Lazar, A. and Lazar, M. M. (2004) The discourse of the new world order: ‘out-casting’ the double face of threat. Discourse and Society 15(2–3): 223–242.
Lemke, J. (1995) Textual politics: discourse and social dynamics. (Critical Perspectives on Literacy and Education) London: Taylor and Francis.
Lindsay, P. (1992) Kokoda: the bloody track. Canberra: The Australian Army Training Command.
Lindsay, P. (2002) The Spirit of Kokoda: then and now. Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books.
Martin, J. R. (1992) English Text: system and structure. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Martin, J. R. (1999) Grace: the logogenesis of freedom. Discourse Studies 1(1): 31–58.
Martin, J. R. and Plum, G. (1997) Construing experience: some story genres. Journal of Narrative and Life History 7(1–4): 299–308.
Martin, J. R. and Rose, D. (2003) Working with Discourse: meaning beyond the clause. London: Continuum.
Martin, J. R. and Rose, D. (2006) Genre Relations: mapping culture. London: Equinox.
Martin, J. R. and White, P. R. R. (2005) The Language of Evaluation: appraisal in English. London: Palgrave.
Martin, J. R. and Wodak, R. (eds) (2004) Re/Reading the Past: critical and functional perspectives on discourses of history. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (1993) Register in the round: diversity in a unified theory of register analysis. In M. Ghadessy (ed.) Register Analysis: theory and practice 221–292. London: Pinter.
Williams, G. (2001) Literacy pedagogy prior to schooling: relations between social positioning and semantic variation. In A. Morais, H. Baillie and B. Thomas (eds) Towards a Sociology of Pedagogy: the contribution of Basil Bernstein to research 17–45. (History of Schools and Schooling 23) New York: Peter Lang.
Wolfer, D. and Harrison-Lever, B. (2005) Photographs in the Mud. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press.
Wolfer, D. (no date) Personal website. Accessed 1 October 2005 from http://members. westnet.com.au/dianne/photo.html
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2008-03-14
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Martin, J. (2008). Genre, Ideology and Intertextuality: A Systemic Functional Perspective. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 2(2), 275–298. https://doi.org/10.1558/lhs.v2i2.275298
