Challenges of Pragmatics over SFL: A Trans-Disciplinary Contrastive Inquisition into Meaning Processing Fashions via the Lion and the Jewel(Soyinka)
Journal Title: The International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 8
Abstract
Further to the Saussurean grassroots-work, the thriving of modern linguistics goes gaining an exponential momentum. So to say, novel horizons in language exploration have given way to two fresh but powerful and challenging offspringsof linguistics: the Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) theory and the Morrisian, Gricean and neo-gricean pragmatics. Beyond our recognition of the individual operative potential in-borne in either discipline, we build on the scavenging and heuristic capacity ontologically characterizing pragmatics to deem that it holds some typical advances over the SFL theory. Thus, the core mission of this article centres around a fused double-round descriptive exploration of two extracts from Soyinka‟s Lionand The Jewel through the sieve of toolkits inherent in both disciplines. Thence, in confronting Mood, Modality, Polarity and Adjunct systems from the SFList universe with Presupposition, Conversational Implicature, Inference and Felicity Conditions in Pragmatics, the work has come up with findings displaying discrepant values. A contrastive view of generated data underpins andorients our decision over the validity of our basic postulation.
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. Patrice Akogbéto1 Dr. Moustafa Guézohouèzon2
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- DOI 10.18535/ijsshi/v4i8.06
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