Stories of Taxonomy: Uncovering Differences between Folk Taxonomy and Taxonomy in Systemic Functional Linguistics Theory
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This study aims to investigate the developmental concepts of folk taxonomy and taxonomy in Systemic Functional Linguistics theory and to compare differences between both concepts and its criteria underlying how to name and classify things in the world. Documentary analysis method was used to analyze data from the secondary sources, including websites, textbooks and academic articles. The findings reveal that folk taxonomy and Systemic Functional Linguistics taxonomy share some common purposes of naming and categorizing things in terms of making common understanding and avoiding confusion between describers and communicators. In terms of differences, findings show that both types of taxonomies have been developed in different ways with different principles of naming and categorizing things. On the one hand, folk taxonomy has been developed from the experimental ways, especially researching about plants and herbs in order to name and classify them into levels and kingdoms by concerning on researchers’ experiences, expertise, language, and culture. The Systemic Functional Linguistics theory, on the other hand, naming and categorizing things have been developed by observing and studying from the development of language, mode of meanings, and functions of language in a society.
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