Characteristics of the Dynamic Perspective Within SFL Framework
Characteristics of the Dynamic Perspective Within SFL Framework

Summary/Abstract: In the last few years, linguists have been preoccupied by the dynamic nature of language, trying to provide a model that is able to explain this aspect of language. Within systemic functional framework, the dynamic perspective, together with synoptic perspective, represents a very useful tool of analysing a text in terms of ranking. The first part of the paper presents the dynamic perspective in general terms, pointing out the differences between it and the synoptic perspective. The second part of the paper analyses the basic characteristics of the dynamic perspective, discusses the ways our choices make a text unfold itself as well as the most common means used at the level of clause in building up a text.

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