Table of 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
Index

Promotional Information

China has proven a key staging ground for the next generation of advances in Systemic Functional Linguistics. This volume exhibits the range of scholarship in SFL from China and how it can be contextualized in global setting.

About the Author

Jonathan Webster, Professor, City University of Hong Kong
Xuanwei Peng, Professor, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China

Reviews

This volume is a meticulous and valuable resource of articulating the state of the art of SFL in China for the linguists and the students who are fascinated with Chinese and/or SFL. The contributors not only lead the way to SFL founded by Halliday ... but also show their specific scenes that they have cultivated rooted in China. The 21 papers illustrate the insightful points of the developments of SFL in different areas in China as to be considered as an invaluable academic collection.
*Linguistics and the Human Sciences*

This very welcome publication offers both definitive accounts of the development of Systemic Functional Linguistics in China and a variety of significant scholarship in sub fields of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Each of the specialized chapters makes an important contribution to Systemic Functional theory and description.
*Michael Cummings, Professor emeritus and Senior Scholar, York University, Canada*

This book adroitly combines invaluable information on the historical development of Systemic Fundamental Linguistics in China with intriguing examples of current work, across linguistic strata and semiotic modalities. It is very important reading for anyone interested in international developments in SFL.
*Geoff Williams, Honorary Professor of Education, University of Sydney, Australia and Emeritus Professor of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Canada.*