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This article presents an analysis of the code of conduct and ethics of the second most prestigious public university in Mexico, the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP). These regulations are meant to officially represent the ethical stance of the entire university with more than 95,000 members. The study aims to identify prevalent textual characteristics of the document through a systemic functional linguistic (SFL) analysis of the textual metafunction, including the identification of tendencies in Marked and Unmarked Themes and MOOD (Halliday and Matthiessen 2014). The findings could provide an insight into the nature of such regulatory texts as well as providing guidance towards their improvement as the university moves towards the new 2030 Agenda of the United Nations (Naciones Unidas 2018).

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Keyword(s): macro-Themes; mexican educational policy; SFL; textual metafunction; Thematised values

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