Functional stylistic studies to pedagogic discourse: a systematic review of literature

Pedagogic discourse has been studied stylistically from many theoretical perspectives. However, there is no recent systematic review of the functional stylistic approach to pedagogic discourse. This study presents a systematic review of the functional stylistic approach to analysing multimodal pedagogic discourse using Systemic Functional Linguistics and visual grammar. Through analysing studies from five databases, the review demonstrates that most studies focus on analysing multimodal pedagogic discourse, such as language, gesture, space, gaze, facial expressions, PowerPoint slides, mathematic symbolisms, whiteboard, and educational apps, from the perspectives of context, meta-functional meaning, and semiotic relations, and preferred qualitative analysis methods. The review also proposes a functional grammatical framework for pedagogic discourse stylistic analysis and implies a strong demand for a quantitative or mixed-methods approach to further investigate pedagogic discourse and its impact on pedagogic effect.