The nominal groups in texts in the English language: a systemic-functional approach

Authors

  • Marcelo Saparas Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados (UFGD), Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul,
  • Lucas Menezes de Morais Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados (UFGD), Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/sig.v30i4.50140

Keywords:

Nominal groups. Genre. Emantics. SFL.

Abstract

This article aims to understand the nominal group (GN) in English from a perspective not only morphosyntactic but also semantic. It is a research that, through Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (2004), aims to help the understanding and, in some cases, the translation, of terms and phrases of the English language, viz., NGs present in certain textual genres. The research seeks to clarify the constitution of the NGs so that one can better understand the relation of the structure of the NGs and their functions in the academic writing genres and internet advertising texts, since it is expected that these nominal groups have a distinct constitution in both genres mentioned. The corpus of the research is composed of 50 GNs in English, being 25 for each genre, a number that seems sufficient to observe how these groups behave. We observed that, depending on the genre, there may be differences in the constitution of GNs.

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Published

2018-12-03

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SAPARAS, M.; DE MORAIS, L. M. The nominal groups in texts in the English language: a systemic-functional approach. Signótica, Goiânia, v. 30, n. 4, p. 524–546, 2018. DOI: 10.5216/sig.v30i4.50140. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/sig/article/view/50140. Acesso em: 22 nov. 2024.

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