Full Description
Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics: The State of the Art in China Today showcases new work from leading scholars in China, as well as offering perspectives on this work from M.A.K. Halliday and Jim Martin. The range of topics covers graphology/phonology, lexis, group and clause, clause complex, text, typology, semiotics, multimodality, stylistics, translation, and teaching.
Not only will this book introduce the latest research into language and multimodal discourse being undertaken by scholars in China today, but also suggest the way forward in terms of where linguistics should be going if the aim is (still) to create 'the innovative producers of social semiotic theory, description and practice the world rightfully expects from the intellectual superpower China is economically positioned to become' (Jim Martin).
This book is essential reading for scholars involved with systemic functional linguistics and interested in its shifting dynamics.
Contents
Foreword, Huang Guowen
Editors' Preface, Peng Xuanwei & Jonathan Webster
Part 1: Perspectives on the State of the Art in China: from the outside looking in
1. The contribution of Systemic Functional Theory to linguistics in China, M.A.K. Halliday
2. Teaching systemic functional linguistics in China: One visiting professor's view, James Martin
Part 2: Showcasing the State of the Art in China
Introduction, Hu Zhuanglin
Graphology and Phonology
3. Stroke systems in Chinese characters: A Systemic Functional perspective on simplified regular script, Peng Xuanwei
4. A corpus-based Systemic Functional phonological approach to modern Chinese modal particles, Liu Chengyu
Lexis
5. Emotion verbs and emotion verbs in Chinese: Their distinctions and sub-classifications based on configurative facts, Song Chengfang
6. Verb types, process types and incident structure: From lexis to discourse semantics, Lu Guoyan & Gao Yanmei
Word Group
7. Structure and function of measure nominals in English and Chinese, Yang Bingjun
8. Systemic Functional Study of the Chinese Temporal System: Marked Chinese tenses, He Wei & Ma Ruizhi
Clause and Clause Complex
9. Range characteristics in material clauses in Mandarin Chinese, Yang Guowen
10. Chinese Characteristics of Clause Complex: A Systemic Functional account, Hsu Fu-mei
Text
11. Generic distributions of English Appraisal categories based on Appraisal corpus, Yu Li, Peng Xuanwei, He Zhongqing, Liu Yujie, Zhang Ranran, Tan Xianfang & Wang Yuying
Typology
12. Lexis-grammar complementarity and system of Person: A Systemic typological perspective, Wang Pin
Semiotics
13. Issues concerning the disciplinary status of semiotics, Hu Zhuanglin
Multimodality
14. Lexicogrammar and text in multimodal discourse analysis, Zhang Delu
15. A study of multimodal engagement resources and voice interaction in pedagogic discourse, Chen Yumin
16. Meaning-making in multimodal visual narrative: patterns of visual weaving, Yang Xiran & Jonathan Webster
Stylistics
17. Ways of illustrating and ways of explicating: Multimodal symbolic articulation in illustrated Shih-shuo Hsin-yü, Liu Shisheng & Song Chengfang
Translation
18. Searching for Metafunctional equivalence in translated texts, Huang Guowen
Teaching
19. Genres in Chinese MA theses: a SFL-based contrastive analysis and implications for teaching, SunYinghui & Ju Zhiqin
Lexicography
20. Defining English idioms in a bilingual learner's dictionary: applications of Systemic Functional Linguistics in lexicography, Chang Chenguang
Register variation
21. The linguistic features of knowledge construction in Chemistry textbooks, Yang Xinzhang
References
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