doi:10.18454/RULB.2022.29.1.23

BRITISH SYSTEMIC AND INTEGRATIONAL THEORIES COMPARED AND THEIR IDEAS PERCEIVED IN RUSSIA

Research article

Gavrilova Yu. V.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18454/RULB.2022.29.1.23

Issue: № 1 (29), 2022

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Gavrilova Yu. V.

National Research University MPEI, Moscow, Russia

Abstract

This article considers and compares two theories that were developed by British linguists of the 20th century. The first theory is called systemic-functional approach, or systemic grammar, its author was Michael Halliday. The other theory is integrational linguistics, or integrationism, it appeared some decades later and was offered by Roy Harris. While Michael Halliday was John Firth’s immediate follower and belonged to the London School, Roy Harris worked independently, often questioned many ideas developed and introduced by previous linguists and set up his own approach to studying linguistic problems. At the end of the article the author gives some names of Russian linguists that dealt with the problems and applied the theories to their research. The method of comparative analysis is used. The author comes to the conclusion that despite being separate theoretical approaches that appeared in different time periods there is much in common as both of them form a characteristic feature of British linguistic approach where schools and ideas are interconnected and interdependent.

Keywords:

integrational, systemic-functional, approach, empirical method, comparative method, metafunction.

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