This edited volume gathers corpus-based studies on topics including English grammar and discourses on media and health, mainly from a systemic functional linguistics (SFL) perspective, in order to reveal the potential of SFL, which has been emphasized by Halliday. Various other perspectives, such as philosophy, statistics, genre studies, etc. are also included to promote SFLs potential interaction with other theories. Though they employ a diverse range of theoretical perspectives, all the chapters focus on exploring language in use with the corpus method.
The studies collected here are all original, unpublished research articles that address significant questions, deepen readers understanding of SFL, and promote its potential interaction with other theories. In addition, they demonstrate the great potential that SFL holds for solving language-related questions in a variety of discourses.
Chapter 1 Introduction.- Part I: Grammar.- Chapter 2 A corpus-based
study of transfers in English gerunds.- Chapter 3 Corpus linguistics as
contextual prosodic theory (CPT) and subtext: A new and final linguistic
theory.- Chapter 4 Idiomaticity in intercultural communication in English as
lingua franca: A corpus-based study of verb-object combinations.- Part II:
Media discourse: Political and academic.- Chapter 5 Participating and
expressing attitudes in new media: A case study of comments on president Xi
Jinpings speech at UN.- Chapter 6 Register variation in Hellenistic Greek:
Factor analysis of quantitative linguistic patterns.- Chapter 7 Synergising
corpus, functional, and cultural approaches to critical discourse studies: A
case study of the discursive representation of Chinese Dream.- Chapter 8 The
discourse of Nkrumaism: A corpus-informed study.- Chapter 9 Concordancing
Chinas friend, foe and frenemy: A corpus-based CDA analysis of geopolitical
actors (re)presented at Chinas interpreter-mediated political press
conferences.- Chapter 10 Citation functions in the opening phase of research
articles: A corpus-based comparative study.- Chapter 11 Engagement resources
in Chinese college students argumentative writings.- Chapter
12 Interpreters role in discourse and context: A corpus-based study from an
SFL perspective.- Part III: Health discourse.- Chapter 13 A study of
intersubjective representations of inferential information in health crisis
news reporting.- Chapter 14 Creativity and television drama: A t-score and MI
value cut-offs analysis of pattern-forming Creativity in House M.D..- Chapter
15 Interpersonal metaphor used in different discursive moves in reply posts
of an online health forum.
Dr. Bingjun Yang is a tenured Full Professor at SJTU. His research articles have appeared in such journals as Language Sciences (2004), Australian Journal of Linguistics (2014, 2015, 2018), Journal of Quantitative Linguistics (2015), Lingua (2018), and Social Semiotics (2019). His recent academic books include the co-authored Language Policy: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Approach (Routledge, 2017) and Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective: A Corpus-based Study (Springer, 2015). His research interests include systemic functional grammar, translation studies and corpus-based linguistic studies. Wen Li is a Ph.D. candidate in English Linguistics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, whose research interests include systemic functional linguistics, language of science, and corpus linguistics. His research articles and book reviews appeared in Social Semiotics (2019), Foreign Language Education (2018), and Foreign Language and Literature (2016).
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