Systemic functional analysis of English and Arabic : a contrastive study

Abstract EN

This study adopts the Hallidayn (1964) Systemic Functional Grammar to analyze English and Arabic languages.

Accordingly, it compares between the findings of the analysis in relation to the two languages in question.

This means that this work aims at finding the differences and similarities between those languages in terms of their functional systems.

Besides, it tests the success of the theory in question in its applicability to the analysis of English as well as Arabic.

In accordance with these aims, this work hypothesizes that English and Arabic are similar rather than different in their main functional systems at the level of metafunctions.

As such, this study limits itself to the investigation of Halliday's metafunctions in the two languages.

The findings of the analysis validate the hypotheses of the study.