Systemic Functional Political Discourse Analysis: A Text-based
Study is the first book which takes a comprehensive systemic
functional perspective on political discourse to provide a
complete, integrated, exhaustive, systemic and functional
description and analysis. Based on the political discourses of the
Umbrella Movement - the largest public protest in the history of
Hong Kong, which occupies a unique political situation in the
world: a post-colonial society like many other Asian societies and
yet unlike the others, it is a Special Administrative Region of
China. Though it enjoys a high degree of autonomy under the
principle of 'One Country, Two Systems', it is still confined to
being part of the 'One Country'. The book demonstrates how a
systemic functional approach can provide a comprehensive, thorough,
and insightful analysis of the political discourse from four
co-related and complementary approaches: contextual, discourse
semantic, lexicogrammatical and historical. Apart from a thorough
discussion of various systemic functional conceptions, it provides
examples of various analyses from a SF perspective, including
contextual parameters, registerial analysis, semantic discourse
analysis, appraisal analysis, and discusses important issues in
political discourse, including negotiation of self-identity,
association of language, power and institutional role, and
expression of 'evidentiality' and 'subjectivity'. It is written not
only for those who are interested in Hong Kong politics in general
and political discourse in Hong Kong in particular, but also for
those who work on political discourse analysis, and those who apply
SFL to various other discourses such as mass media discourse,
medical discourse, teaching discourse, etc. Last but not least,
this book is also intended to provide a theoretical framework in
discourse analysis from the systemic functional perspective for
those who work in Cantonese and in other languages.
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