Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics: The State of the Art in China Today

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by  Jonathan J. Webster, Xuanwei Peng (eds.)

Applying Systemic
Functional Linguistics
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Applying Systemic
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Th e State of the Art in China Today
Edited by Jonathan J. Webster and Peng Xuanwei
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Contents
Foreword HUANG, Guowen ix
Editors’ Preface J onathan J. Webster & Peng Xuanwei xxiii
P art 1 Perspectives on the State of the Art in China:
From the Outside Looking In
1 Contribution of Linguistics in China to the
Development of SFL M .A.K. Halliday 3
2 Teaching and Learning SFL in China: Pedagogy and
Curriculum J.R. Martin 15
Part 2 Showcasing the State of the Art in China
Introduction HU, Zhuanglin 35
Graphology and Phonology
3 Stroke Systems in Chinese Characters: A Systemic Functional
Perspective on Simplifi ed Regular Script PENG , Xuanwei ( (cid:5533)(cid:4563)(cid:13604) ) 43
4 A Corpus-based Systemic Functional Phonological Approach
to Modern Chinese Modal Particles LIU, Chengyu ( (cid:2120)(cid:6319)(cid:4535) ) 59
Lexis
5 Emotion Verbs and Emotional Verbs in Chinese: Th eir
Distinctions and Sub-classifi cations Based on Confi gurative
Facts S ONG, Chengfang ( (cid:4539)(cid:6208)(cid:7145) ) 75
6 Verb Types, Process Types, and Incident Structure: From Lexis
to Discourse Semantics L V, Guoyan ( (cid:2629)(cid:3373)(cid:10245) ) &
GAO, Yanmei ( (cid:20744)(cid:5526)(cid:7861) ) 87
Word Group
7 Structure and Function of Measure Nominals in English and
Chinese YANG, Bingjun ( (cid:7576)(cid:9955)(cid:19159) ) 105
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8 A Systemic Functional Study of Marked Chinese
Tenses HE, Wei ( (cid:1413)(cid:1359) ) & M A , Ruizhi ( (cid:20636)(cid:10894)(cid:14541) ) 119
Clause and Clause Complex
9 Range Characteristics in Material Clauses in Mandarin
Chinese YANG, Guowen ( (cid:7576)(cid:3373)(cid:7095) ) 139
10 Chinese Characteristics of Clause Complex: Th e SF Perspective
of Achievements from Former Accounts H SU, Fu- mei ( (cid:5568)(cid:4604)(cid:13758) ) 151
Text
11 Generic Distributions of English Appraisal Categories
Based on A ppraisal Corpus YU , Li ( (cid:1214)(cid:1133) ), PENG , Xuanwei ( (cid:5533)(cid:4563)(cid:13604) ) ,
HE , Zhongqing ( (cid:1413)(cid:1117)(cid:9269) ), LIU , Yujie ( (cid:2120)(cid:10681)(cid:9009) ) , ZHANG , Ranran ((cid:5456) (cid:1977)(cid:1977) ) ,
TAN , Xianfang ( (cid:16952)(cid:1289)(cid:14563) ) & WANG , Yuying ( (cid:10683)(cid:10681)(cid:14625) ) 169
Typology
12 Lexis-grammar Complementarity and System of person :
A Systemic Typological Perspective WANG , Pin ( (cid:10683)(cid:2801) ) 187
Semiotics
13 Issues Concerning the Disciplinary Status of
Semiotics HU , Zhuanglin ( (cid:14097)(cid:3870)(cid:21711) ) 205
Multimodality
14 Lexicogrammar and Text in Multimodal Discourse
Analysis Z HANG, Delu ( (cid:5456)(cid:5607)(cid:12212) ) 215
15 A Study of Multimodal Engagement Resources and
Voice Interaction in Pedagogic Discourse C HEN, Yumin ( (cid:19576)(cid:10892)(cid:7039) ) 229
16 Meaning-making in Multimodal Visual Narrative: Patterns
of Visual Weaving Y ANG, Xiran ( (cid:7576)(cid:13829)(cid:10086) ) & Jonathan J. Webster 243
Stylistics
17 Ways of Illustrating and Ways of Explicating: Multimodal
Symbolic Articulation in Illustrated Shì Shuō Xīn Y uˇ
LIU , Shisheng ( (cid:2120)(cid:1094)(cid:11087) ) & S ONG , Chengfang ( (cid:4539)(cid:6208)(cid:7145) ) 267
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Translation
18 Searching for Metafunctional Equivalence in Translated
Texts HUANG, Guowen ( (cid:21748)(cid:3373)(cid:7095) ) 285
Teaching
19 Genres in Chinese Students’ MA Th eses: An SFL -based Contrastive
Analysis and Implications for Teaching S UN , Yinghui ( (cid:4489)(cid:17918)(cid:7302) ) &
JU, Zhiqin ( (cid:19920)(cid:5639)(cid:2324) ) 307
Lexicography
20 Defi ning English Idioms in a Bilingual Learner’s Dictionary:
Applications of Systemic Functional Linguistics in
Lexicography CHANG, Chenguang ( (cid:5224)(cid:7320)(cid:1913) ) 321
Register Variation
21 Th e Linguistic Features of Knowledge Construction in
Chemistry Textbooks Y ANG, Xinzhang ( (cid:7576)(cid:1553)(cid:5536) ) 337
References 351
Index 379
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Foreword: Systemic Functional Linguistics
Studies in China1
HUANG , Guowen2
College of Foreign Studies
South China Agricultural University, P.R. China
1 Introduction
It is really a great pleasure and privilege for me to write a foreword to this collection
of papers concerning the study of systemic functional linguistics (henceforth SFL )
in the mainland of China. It has been forty years since M.A.K. Halliday’s theory of
language—Systemic Functional Grammar (henceforth SFG )—was fi rst introduced
to China by Fang Li, Hu Zhuanglin, and Xu Kerong ( 1977 ); although SFG was
described very briefl y and the paper itself was not widely circulated, its fi rst
appearance in the country was very signifi cant. It aroused much interest in this
theory from the circle of foreign language teaching in the mainland of China in
the 1980s. In 1980, a review article was published on J.R. Firth’s linguistics theory,
written by Wang Zongyan ( 1980 ), a senior professor at Sun Yat-sen University, and
the following year witnessed his review article ( Wang 1981 ) on Halliday’s ( 1956 )
“Grammatical categories in modern Chinese”; both review articles were published
in Guowai Yuyanxue ( Linguistics Abroad ), a widely-circulated and very prestigious
journal in China, published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. A year
later, Xu Shenghuan ( 1982 ) of South China Normal University (now a professor of
Henan University) published a paper on Th eme and Rheme and in the same year
Long Rijin ( 1982 ) of Southwest Normal University reviewed ideas of register
analysis. Th is was followed by the publication of two important papers by Hu
Zhuanglin ( 1983 , 1984 ) of Peking University, which were concerned with Halliday
as a systemic functional linguist and Halliday’s systemic functional view of
language. During this period, there were other papers related to SFG or SFL
published in China, although most of them were introductions or introductory
reviews rather than research papers. Th e discussion on SFG or S FL during those
years led to the development of SFL studies in China, especially among the
teachers and researchers of English language at universities and colleges.
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