Analyzing Student essays in Spanish within the Systemic Functional Framework
This paper reports on an on-going project investigating language use in the field of the humanities in Mexico and the United States. The main objective is to analyze the functional components of different genres within the academic register and to explore lexicogrammatical features of these genres. In my paper at the 35~(th) ISFC (Ignatieva 2008a) I presented one part of this investigation describing the academic genre of question-answer. Now another genre, namely, the essay, will be the topic of my paper. Seven texts are studied, all of them written by second-year students at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts (National Autonomous University of Mexico) as an extra-class term assignment. Each text is analyzed according to several parameters: genre analysis; thematic analysis; transitivity analysis; interpersonal analysis; grammatical metaphor analysis and lexical density analysis. These texts are then compared with a model text, an essay written by an expert on literature topics, a member of the faculty staff. The paper will examine the differences and similarities between the two types of texts with regard to its textual organization, the selection of thematic structures, process types and other parameters.
genre theme transitivity interpersonal grammatical metaphor
Natalia IGNATIEVA
Applied Linguistics Department National Autonomous University of Mexico
国际会议
The 36th International Systemic Functional Congress(第36届国际系统功能语言学大会暨第十一届全国功能语言学研讨会ISFC36)
北京
英文
46-50
2009-07-14（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）