Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics

[Valerie Hall]

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Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics

Theory and Application

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Description
This volume presents current views on the achievements made in the study of
Systemic Functional Linguistics in both theory and application, and on
potential domains and directions for its further development.

The first part looks at strengthening theoretical research and description
in system networks and seeks to deepen our understanding of the concept of
choice and of the consequences arising from making choices in particular
social contexts. It also makes comparisons of different models within SFL
and of similarities and differences between SFL and other linguistic models.
The second part sums up SFL’s fifty years of refinement as a theory and goes
on to offer an explicit definition of Applicable Discourse Analysis,
presenting views on the potential areas, methods and criteria for verbal and
multimodal discourse analysis, with examples. The final part of the volume
discusses potential directions for SFL, including expanding SFL typological
research into languages other than English, in countries other than the
major English speaking ones, exploring solutions to the challenges faced by
multimodal discourse, extending traditional translation studies to other
modes; extending stylistics studies across different disciplines; exploring
the potential of SFL to tackle the challenges confronting language education
at both macro and micro levels; and achieving globalization in SFL across
cyberspace.


Contents
Part I: Theoretical Issues in Description
1. Some Systemic Functional Reflexions on the History of Meaning
M.A.K. Halliday, Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney
2. Beyond Redemption: Choice and Consequence in Youth Justice Conferencing
James Martin, University of Sydney
3. The Meaning of Function: Syntax in Systemic Functional Linguistics
Delu Zhang, Tongji University, China
4. Systemic Linguistics and Constructivism 
Shiqing Yan, Suzhou University, China
5. The System Network for Generating the Expressions of Chinese Aspects
Guowen Yang, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,
China

Part II: Theory and its Applications
6. On Linguistic Signs and the Science of Linguistics: The Foundations of
Applicability
Ruqaiya Hasan, Emeritus Professor, Macquarie University
7. Appliable Discourse Analysis
Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
8.Labelling Discourse Acts: Interpersonal Projection Across Registers
Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool, UK
9. Modelling Ellipsis in EFL Classroom Discourse
Xueyan Yang, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China
10. Genre and Appraisal Theories in Functional Discourse Analysis – with
Reference to Accounts in ‘Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind’
Zhanzi Li, Nanjing Normal University, China
11. Analyzing the Reporting Clause in Translating Confucius's Lun Yu (The
Analects)
Guowen Huang, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Part III: Developing Directions
12. Challenges and Solutions for Multimodal Analysis: Technology, Theory and
Practice
Kay O'Halloran, Alexey Podlasov, Alvin Chua, Christel-Loic Tisse, Victor Lim
Fei and Bradley Smith, the National University of Singapore
13. Challenges for Stylistic Method – From Literary Enquiry to Mental Health
Treatments: When Two Methods are at One
David Butt, Macquarie University
14. Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Round: Imagining FL Education for
a Global World
Heidi Byrnes, Georgetown University
15. Between Man and Machine: The Changing Face of Corpus Annotation Software
Mick O’Donnell, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
16. Systemic Functional Linguistics and Cyperspace
Eija Ventola, Aalto University, Finland