مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - A SYSTEMIC-FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF TWO SHORT STORIES

Abstract :

The shortcoming in most textual analyses is their dependence on contestable and value judgments of literary critics. However, such prescriptive commentary is not instrumental in exploring multiple meanings encoded in grammar. This necessitates a linguistic analysis of texts, which demonstrates how and why a text gets to be the way it is as well as the reader interprets it in the particular way. For this reason, the functional text analysis undertaken in this study aims to investigate the similarities and differences between two short stories and is performed with regard to Halliday’s Functional Grammar. The linguistic data were analyzed by using the functional grammatical analysis method, while frequencies and percentages were calculated for each functional category by using Excel. Consequently, how interpersonal relationships are created within texts, how information is organized in texts and how the ideological positions of writers are implanted in texts were shown and interpreted.