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In recent years, research has prospered in the study of language
policy. However, there are still many problems behind this
prosperity. For example, much of the research lacks theoretical
intervention and neglects perspectives of linguistic theories. This
book, a trailblazer for academic researchers in the fields of
language policy and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as
appliable linguistics, examines language policy from the
perspective of SFL, which could provide different angles for
language policy and offer a valuable attempt to test SFL as
appliable linguistics. This book also explores many typical
controversial issues in Chinese language policy with an SFL
approach, such as ongoing conflicts between Putonghua and dialects.
It not only addresses authentic problems emerging from the
implementation process of Chinese language policy, but also has
produced some feasible and customized suggestions to improve
Chinese language policy.
In recent years, research has prospered in the study of language
policy. However, there are still many problems behind this
prosperity. For example, much of the research lacks theoretical
intervention and neglects perspectives of linguistic theories. This
book, a trailblazer for academic researchers in the fields of
language policy and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as
appliable linguistics, examines language policy from the
perspective of SFL, which could provide different angles for
language policy and offer a valuable attempt to test SFL as
appliable linguistics. This book also explores many typical
controversial issues in Chinese language policy with an SFL
approach, such as ongoing conflicts between Putonghua and dialects.
It not only addresses authentic problems emerging from the
implementation process of Chinese language policy, but also has
produced some feasible and customized suggestions to improve
Chinese language policy.
This edited volume gathers corpus-based studies on topics including
English grammar and discourses on media and health, mainly from a
systemic functional linguistics (SFL) perspective, in order to
reveal the potential of SFL, which has been emphasized by Halliday.
Various other perspectives, such as philosophy, statistics, genre
studies, etc. are also included to promote SFL's potential
interaction with other theories. Though they employ a diverse range
of theoretical perspectives, all the chapters focus on exploring
language in use with the corpus method. The studies collected here
are all original, unpublished research articles that address
significant questions, deepen readers' understanding of SFL, and
promote its potential interaction with other theories. In addition,
they demonstrate the great potential that SFL holds for solving
language-related questions in a variety of discourses.
This edited volume gathers corpus-based studies on topics including
English grammar and discourses on media and health, mainly from a
systemic functional linguistics (SFL) perspective, in order to
reveal the potential of SFL, which has been emphasized by Halliday.
Various other perspectives, such as philosophy, statistics, genre
studies, etc. are also included to promote SFL's potential
interaction with other theories. Though they employ a diverse range
of theoretical perspectives, all the chapters focus on exploring
language in use with the corpus method. The studies collected here
are all original, unpublished research articles that address
significant questions, deepen readers' understanding of SFL, and
promote its potential interaction with other theories. In addition,
they demonstrate the great potential that SFL holds for solving
language-related questions in a variety of discourses.
This book focuses on the structural diversity, semantic
variability, case choice, stylistic characteristics and diachronic
distribution of English absolute clauses. The syntactic roles
assumed by absolute clauses in the traditional sense can be
categorized into clausal adjuncts, attendant circumstances and
appositives. These three types of function correspond to the three
hypotactic expansions in the relation system of clause complexes in
Systemic Functional Linguistics, i.e., elaboration, extension and
enhancement. This research, therefore, redefines absolute clauses
in the framework of SFL and proposes four syntactic types of
absolute clauses: absolute paratactic clauses (elaboration),
absolute hypotactic clauses (extension and enhancement), absolute
projected clauses (fact and act) and absolute embedded clauses
(subject). Based on the Brown family corpora, BNC and COHA, this
research finds that different function types of absolute clauses
differ in terms of their stylistic and diachronic distributions,
and both nominative and accusative cases are acceptable.
'Non-finiteness' is a phenomenon that occurs in most natural
languages, whereby a verb is not inflected by grammatical tense,
and does not possess the grammatical features of aspect, mood or
voice. Various theories have been developed to explain their
distribution and their role in clause structure, but many instances
of non-finiteness remain unaccounted for. Taking a functional
approach, this study proposes a 'process relation framework' to
explain the more complex, previously unaccounted for, instances of
non-finiteness in clause structure. It applies the framework
comparatively to non-finiteness in English and Chinese, showing how
it can be applied across typologically distinct languages. Drawing
on corpus-based instances and observations, it introduces numerous
thought-provoking cases, in which constructional (or combining)
types and the predictability of non-finiteness co-occur. In terms
of application, non-finiteness is decisive in categorising language
types, and it is critical in processing natural languages, text
segmentation and annotation in particular.
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