This paper explores experiential meaning realized in transitivity resource and interpersonal meaning realized in the mood and modality resources of two songs about mother by Nguyen Van Ty. The discussion of the experiential and interpersonal meaning explored will enable the researcher to have a better understanding of the image of mother depicted in the two songs. | VNU JOURNAL OF FOREIGN STUDIES VOL. 37 NO. 4 2021 39 AN ANALYSIS OF SONGS ABOUT MOTHER BY NGUYEN VAN TY FROM SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS PERSPECTIVE Ta Thi Thu Hang Faculty of Language Education and Professional Development VNU University of Languages and International Studies Pham Van Dong Cau Giay Hanoi Vietnam Received 17 January 2021 Revised 10 March 2021 Accepted 20 July 2021 Abstract This paper explores experiential meaning realized in transitivity resource and interpersonal meaning realized in the mood and modality resources of two songs about mother by Nguyen Van Ty. The discussion of the experiential and interpersonal meaning explored will enable the researcher to have a better understanding of the image of mother depicted in the two songs. The theoretical framework employed for analysis is Systemic Functional Linguistics. The data for analysis is all clause simplexes collected from the two songs. The findings show that material process is mostly used in both songs and followed by mental relational and behavioural processes. There are no verbal and existential processes found in both songs. In terms of interpersonal meaning there is a very high frequency of declarative clauses and a very small number of interrogative and exclamative clauses. Although the occurrence of modality is very humble it is deployed in both songs. It is recommended that the two songs can be used as an effective source for students who take an interest in studying the Vietnamese language from Systemic Functional Linguistics view. Key words systemic functional linguistics experiential meaning interpersonal meaning transitivity mood and modality 1. Introduction texts two researches by Nguyen 2012 2018 named Transitivity Analysis of Heroic A lot of linguistic approaches have Mother by Hoa Pham and Femininity been developed in an attempt to analyze and Female Sexual Desires in The Lang different genres of texts effectively. Over Women An Analysis Using Halliday s the past decades a
