Critical Discourse And Corpus Approaches To Systemic Functional Grammar
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Critical Discourse and Corpus Approaches to Systemic Functional Grammar
The present volume draws on the experience of the Workshop held in Germany in late 2018 to combine the specialisations of the two linguistic research teams of the two partner universities, Sun Yat-sen University in China and Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany. It combines more theoretical approaches by experienced scholars and case studies by young researchers on topics and texts on current Chinese developments. The contributions can also serve as a general model for open and critical international and intercultural academic discourse.
English Tense and Aspect in Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar
This book is aimed at fellow practitioners and researchers in functional linguistics. It offers a friendly but critical appraisal of a major component of the 'standard' version of SFL, i.e. the account given by Halliday and Matthiessen of tense and aspect in English. Supporting his criticisms with evidence from a project in corpus linguistics, Bache suggests that this account fails in several ways to satisfy accepted functionalist criteria, and hence needs revising and extending. After surveying alternative functionalist approaches to modelling time and tense in English (including Fawcett's Cardiff school approach and Harder's instructional-semantic approach), and after presenting a number of principles of category description, Bache goes on to offer an alternative SFL account of this area of grammar. In Bache's model, the focus is on the speaker's communicative motivation for choosing particular verb forms. The relevant choice relations are seen to draw on metafunctionally diverse resources, such as tense, action, aspect and other domains. The basically univariate, serial structure of the verbal group is accordingly enriched with certain characteristics associated with multivariate structures, and the idea of recursion is abandoned. Finally, Bache examines the descriptive potential of his model in connection with projection, conditions, and narration.
Introducing Systemic Functional Linguistics
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), covering key concepts and contributions to the field and instructing beginners to apply SFL to different areas. Authored by contributors with extensive experience of teaching SFL, this book is composed of 14 chapters covering theories, descriptions, and applications of SFL. It encompasses the following topics: SFL theory and the organizing principles; descriptions of various lexicogrammatical and semantic systems; grammatical metaphor; register studies; different areas of SFL application, including translation studies, multimodal discourse analysis, and educational linguistics. Suitable to be used as teaching materials, the chapters are carefully organized into sections of learning outcomes, key terms, exercises, and suggested readings. By introducing the theory and applications of SFL in accessible terms and requiring no prior knowledge, this practical book is a key reading for students new to the area.