What is Functional Grammar?, Functional vs Formal Grammar, Grammatics, Semiotics (Lecture-2)
The term "functional" indicates that the approach is concerned with meaning, as opposed to formal grammar, which focuses on word classes such as nouns and verbs.
These units of meanings are represented in various oral and written texts.
Functional grammar is interested to analyze language at the text level rather than sentences.
00:00 Introduction
01:12 Review of Lesson -1
02:38 Contents
03:50 What is Functional Grammar?
10:25 What is Text?
19:43 Text as an Object
21:50 Text as an Instrument
23:41 Text as an Artefact or Specimen
27:15 Text as Register
31:23 Grammatics & Semiosis
33:17 Questions