The Analysis Of An Online Debate – The Systemic Functional Grammar Approach

This paper will offer an analysis of an online debate using Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) approach. The main goals are to give an analysis of genre, comment on ideologies, beliefs and the social purpose of the text, as well as to explore the cultural and situational contexts. It will also conduct an examination of field, tenor and mode of the given text. The emerging patterns will be summarized to reveal whether the text has fulfilled its generic structure potential, evaluate the writers' attitudinal motifs and clarify whether and how the cohesion of the text has been accomplished.