SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR AND ITS EVALUATION ON THE NON-STANDARD VIETNAMESE USED BY TEENAGERS NOWADAYS FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR

Abstract

The paper presents generally the nature of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) and its evaluation on the non-standard Vietnamese used by the youth nowadays. SFG argues that language is a system of choices in expressing experiential meaning, personal meaning and textual meaning. SFG considers non-standard language used by teenagers as part of system of choices, which will be productive and will spread in many contexts of communication. Therefore, non-standard language will gradually degenerate and change Vietnamese badly. According to SFG, the situation of non-standard Vietnamese nowadays gives the alarm so that we need appropriate solutions to prevent bad languages and to encourage teenagers to use pure standard language accepted by community.