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Beatriz Quiroz: “Interpersonal lexicogrammar: on MOOD, speech functions and beyond”
Time: 10:00 Wednesday, July 6
Venue: #215, School of Foreign Languages
Speaker: Dr. Beatriz Quiroz
Abstract:
This talk addresses the description of interpersonal grammar in SFL, particularly in relation to MOOD. It begins by briefly locating interpersonal grammar in the SFL architecture and then moves to English MOOD using a trinocular perspective. Starting ‘from above’, English MOOD is seen in terms of speech functions and other clause resources to dynamically negotiate meanings in the exchange. The paper then illustrates how the same principles for the description of MOOD in English can be applied to a language like Spanish (or any other language). The discussion finally moves to the kind of reasoning that specifically underlies description in SFL. Some questions are raised towards the end in relation to assumptions that can be useful for language description in an integrated theory of language.
Biodata
Beatriz is Assistant Professor at the Department of Language Sciences in the Faculty of Letters of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC-Chile), where she teaches and supervises undergraduate and postgraduate students in Linguistics. She completed her PhD at the University of Sydney, Australia, in 2013. Her current research, informed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), focuses on a metafunctionally integrated description of clause systems in Chilean Spanish, with special emphasis on the system-structure principle embodied by the theoretical dimension of axis. Other research interests include the interaction between lexicogrammar and discourse-semantics, and systemic functional language typology. Relevant publications include “Towards a systemic profile of the Spanish mood” (recently reprinted in the multi-volume book Systemic Functional Linguistics, edited by Martin & Doran, 2015, Routledge) and “The verbal group” (to appear in The Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics, edited by Bartlett & O’Grady, Routledge). Further details about her work and academic interests can be found at http://beatrizquiroz.weebly.com/
