Full Description
This volume showcases previously unpublished research on theoretical, descriptive, and methodological innovations for understanding language patterns grounded in a Systemic Functional Linguistic perspective. Featuring contributions from an international range of scholars, the book demonstrates how advances in SFL have developed to reflect the breadth of variation in language and how descriptive methodologies for language have evolved in turn. Taken together, the volume offers a comprehensive account of Systemic Functional Language description, providing a foundation for practice and further research for students and scholars in descriptive linguistics, SFL, and theoretical linguistics.
Contents
Table of contents
Describing languages, understanding language: Systemic Functional theory and description
Y.J. Doran and J.R. Martin
Part I: Understanding grammar
Axial argumentation below the clause: The verbal group in Khorchin Mongolian
Dongbing Zhang
Axial argumentation and cryptogrammar in interpersonal grammar: A case study of Classical Tibetan mood
Pin Wang
Experiential cryptotypes: reasoning about process type
Beatriz Quiroz
Axial argumentation and cryptogrammar in textual grammar: theme in Brazilian Portuguese
Giacomo Figueredo
Arguments for seeing Theme-Rheme and Topic-Comment as separate functional structures
Randy J. LaPolla
Part II: Contextualising grammar
Functional language typology: A discourse semantic perspective
J.R. Martin and Beatriz Quiroz
Construing relations between scientific activities through Mandarin Chinese
Jing Hao
The Baboon and the Bee: Exploring register patterns across languages
David Rose
Language shift: Bilingual exchange structure in classroom interactions
Harni Kartika Ningsih
Academic formalisms: Toward a semiotic typology
Y.J. Doran
