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UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA CATARINA CENTRO DE COMUNICAÇÃO E EXPRESSÃO PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM LETRAS-INGLÊS E LITERATURA CORRESPONDENTE A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO EXPERIENTIAL MEANING CONSTRUAL IN AGONY AUNT COLUMNS: A CASE STUDY ON TWO COLUMNS OF GLAMOUR MAGAZINE por
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Cardoso, Laylla Donata Cardoso, Donata Meurer, Luiz Heberle, Viviane Maria Peixoto, C. A. |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO EXPERIENTIAL MEANING CONSTRUAL IN AGONY AUNT COLUMNS: A CASE STUDY ON TWO COLUMNS OF GLAMOUR MAGAZINE LAYLLA DONATA CARDOSO UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA CATARINA 2007 Advisor: Dr. Gloria Gil In contemporary days, there seems to be a growing need to socialize personal problems, and notably, women's magazines appear to be a good vehicle for sharing experiences. In this thesis, I investigate a specific genre in women's magazines, the Agony Aunt Columns, also known as advice columns. The main function of Agony Aunt Columns is to answer readers' letters by providing pieces of advice on personal issues, normally related to love, sex, and relationships in general. The present study proposes a linguistic investigation of two Agony Aunt Columns, published on Glamour magazine. The main objective of this work is to show how experiential meanings are construed in both, advice-seeking and advice-giving letters. For that purpose, at a macro level, a genre analysis reveals the schematic structure of the letters under consideration. And, at a micro level, this study examines the representation of experiential meanings realized by the transitivity choices. The analytical framework applied to this research is based on Systemic Functional theory, mainly on the works of Halliday (1985, 1994) and Halliday & Matthiessen (2004). The results of this study indicate that: 1) Glamour Agony Aunt Columns may be considered an example of hybrid genre, in which advice-seeking letters present narrative features, while advice-giving letters resemble the structure of hortatory text-types; 2) the transitivity analysis of the two Agony Aunt Columns reveals that: (i) even in a workplace dimension, women's experiences are related to emotions and private affairs; (ii) material, relational and mental processes appear in a major number, indicating that women's experiences are construed mostly by representations of actions, relationships of being and sharing of feelings/thoughts; (iii) the processes associate women's experiences with identification in the two contexts (private and professional), idealization (the solutions for their problems), and with abstract and non-abstract actions; (iv) advice-seekers tend to represent themselves in passive roles, as “victims” socially oppressed, whereas the advice-giver is strongly represented as a reliable self-confident problem solver. The findings of this research hope to contribute to raise language awareness, stimulate readers to reflect on textual practices, as well as empowering them with theoretically-oriented analytical tools for discussing and unveiling often hidden textual meanings. |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
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