Systemic Functional Linguistics

NAME : ADE TEGUH RAMADAN

NPM : 16020230009
CLASS : FKIP-7 B
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research (Using systemic functional linguistics
as method in identifying semogenic strategies in intercultural communication: A study
of the collocation of “time” and “different” by Swedish managers with international
management experiences) By Cheryl Marie Cordeiro
Conclusion
This thesis aims to supplement the current field of ICC research from the perspective of
applied linguistics in theory and analysis context, in particular through the lens of systemic functional
linguistics (SFL) and language as a social semiotic. The findings of this study complement other
research findings in the ICC field because human skills of emotional and mental adroitness from the
SFL perspective are expressed in internal cognition (thinking, sensing, feeling) and external actions
(doing, speaking) processes of mental and material transitivity. The context register, which refers to
the purpose for which a communication exchange takes place, whether in an office for business
negotiation, for example, or during a coffee break in an office setting, will also influence semogenic
strategies. As such, the possible implication of the SFL and language as a social semiotic perspective
is that the ICC is not seen as a study of the two different concepts of culture and communication,
resulting in typological "communication styles" or "conflict resolution styles," rather ICC instantiation
would be a function of the context of the situation. As noted by scholars (Bird & Mendenhall, 2016;
Kim, 2010), in the 1990s, ICC began to develop an integrative theoretical foundation based on
various disciplines, ranging from social psychology to communication studies and cross-cultural
management studies. In this research, the theory and application of ICC is examined from a linguistic
analysis and a social semiotic perspective which sees language as a dynamic adaptive network that
shapes and informs the instantiation of ICC processes throughout relation to the context of use.

The way in which the findings of the SFL complement current ICC methodologies could also
prove to be its limitation. Although it spreads as a method of study, SFL is a particular school of
grammar studies that focuses on the paradigmatic axis of grammar and, in that sense, remains in the
hands of a relatively small group of interested scholars. Both the SFL and the ICC as research fields
can benefit from the theoretical and practical perspectives of cross-pollination in future research
directions. In conjunction with Eggins (1994), SFL offers an introduction to the basic principles of the
structural approach, outlining the general approach to discussion and text analysis. The two main
advantages offered by SFL in the analysis of text (written or spoken) are that I it offers an integrated,
comprehensive and systematic language model that enables language patterns to be described and
quantified at different levels and in different degrees of detail; and (ii) it promotes links between
language and social life so that texts can be seen as reflective of soccer. To this extent, it is hoped
that this study will inspire new directions in future cross-cultural communication and cross-cultural
management research. In the era of large data analytics and access to text-based Internet data
across different cultural contexts, a specific field of research could be quantitative textual analysis
(QTA) applied to the findings of ICC studies to which SFL could provide a framework for data
management. The benefit of using QTA approaches that SFL can be assumed to endorse and can be
further researched is that it aligns itself with corpus-driven findings, with the ability to move results
from descriptive (which is what is seen in this study) to predictive.