Linguistics and Elt Journal
Vol 9, No 1 (2021)

Mental Verbs in Marketing Texts: Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspectives

Sembiring, Bahtera (Unknown)
Khorina, Mulyati (Unknown)
Nugraha, Danny Gandana (Unknown)

Article Info

Publish Date
05 Jun 2021

Abstract

The aim of this study was to examine mental verbs found in  Marketing texts. Thus, the qualitative data were taken from  a graduate textbook entitled Selling Today. The data were analyzed by applying Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) framework. The results showed that mental process of like type appear to be dominant which is realized by various lexical verbs. The mental process occur on all types of mental clauses: perceptive, cognitive, desiderative, and emotive. However, among the four types of mental clauses, cognitive clauses has the highest occurance frequency with various choices of verbs realizing its mental process. The findings offer opportunity to model English grammar for Marketing students.

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Linguistics and Elt Journal
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Abbrev

JELTL

Publisher

Universitas Muhammadiyah Mataram

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Linguistics and ELT Journal (p-ISSN 2339-2940 | e-ISSN 2614-8633) is published twice a year in the months of June and December. The purpose of LELTJ is to disseminate information and facilitate understanding among those people who are concerned with English language teaching and linguistics, ...