Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory and Application - Jonathan J. Webster

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Résumé :
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.

Biographie:
Fang Yan taught at Peking University and then at Tsinghua University until retirement in 2004. Jonathan J. Webster is Professor and Head, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, and Director, The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also the General Editor of the Equinox journal Linguistics and the Human Sciences and the editor (with Ruqaiya Hasan and Christian Matthiessen) of the two volume Continuing Discourse on Language: A Functional Perspective (Equinox, 2007).

Sommaire:
Part One: 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 Two: Theory and its Applications 6. On Linguistic Sign and the Science of Linguistics: The Foundations of Applicability Ruqaiya Hasan, Emeritus Profesor, Macquarie University 7. Labelling Discourse Acts: Interpersonal Projection Across Registers Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool 8. Modelling Ellipsis in EFL Classroom Discourse Xueyan Yang, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China 9. 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 10. Analyzing the Reporting Clause in Translating Confucius's Lun Yu (The Analects) Guowen Huang, Sun Yat-sen University, China Part Three: Developing Directions 11. Challenges and Solutions to Multimodal Discourse: Technology, Theory and Practice Kay O'Halloran, Christel-Loic Tisse and Bradley Smith, all at the National University of Singapore 12. Challenges for Stylistic Method - From Literary Enquiry to Mental Health Treatments: When Two Methods are at One David Butt, Macquarie University 13. Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Round: Imaging FL Education for a Global World Heidi Byrnes, Georgetown University 14. Between Man and Machine: The Changing Face of Corpus Annotation Software Mick O'Donnell, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain 15. Systemic Functional Linguistics and Cyperspace Eija Ventola, Aalto University, Finland