Language is widely used in communication process. In cognitive perspective we can use language to explore what is going on inside the brain. Here in my EC I get a great opportunity to examine a poem written by one of our famous member, Seeker. I am going to find out what is implicit message he is going to tell us as readers by using systemic functional linguistics offered by Halliday.There are three semiotic resources to examine a discourse: Genre, Register, and Language. Though context is the key concept in SFL, I only use the third resources called language by using critical linguistics. Let's see how much we can get by using a little part of the methodology.In order to understand this blog, you have to read Seeker's poem.1. IdeationalI leave this for you guys. You can guess what the idea inside the poem. But I give you hints, Seeker only uses a style, telling us something. No exclamation mark, no question mark and etc. He uses six negative words (lost, lost, cannot, cannot, no sign and did not). The pattern of the poem itself is repeatedPast-past-present-presentPast-past-present-presentPast-past-present-presentPast-presentIt's just my opinion but this kind of repeated style and few negative words is a caution of regret.2. InterpersonalIt's about the relation among the participants. As a writer, Seeker positioned himself as the message sender. In the message he wrote there are four personal pronouns being used. They are:Me : Appear onceI : Appear ten timesMy : Only onceYou : Four timesYour : Only onceMe, I, and my- are referring to the narator of the poem off course. Both you and your are indicating someone else who is being told, not to us as readers. There is no sign of gender. So, it can be between two men, two women, a man and a woman. But, ladies and gentlemen! I find a word 'touched',. It is normal I guess two people in same gender getting touch each others. How about 'Zealous to be touched'? Let's take a conclusion that the poem is between a man and woman. But it remains unclear whether the narator is male or female. Having found 12 personal pronouns refer to the narator, You may sense an ego centrism here. It is, but with few negative words and repeated stanza pattern, it looks like 'I' is blaming himself/herself of everything.3. TextualWell, there must be something happened a lot in the past. It can be seen from eight words of verb2 (past tense) and only half of them are present verbs. There is no future tense. My.... Somebody need to move on! Lol xDI think that's all from me. I will not make general conclusion because it's on your hands ;)Hope you all like it and have a great day!!!
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Hi! Thanks for your comment^^
I really thought it is a poem, hahaha
so there is a misunderstanding here xD
Anyway I am still learning but as far as I know every kind of text can be analysis, especially text for communicating and learning.