Explorations in Systemic Functional Linguistics

This book on systemic functional linguistics (SFL) represents a significant contribution to the field, offering a diverse exploration of how SFL can be applied across a variety of contexts. This book as a whole aims to demonstrate the adaptability and depth of SFL, pushing the boundaries of traditional linguistic analysis and highlighting its relevance in contemporary discourse.

This book makes a novel contribution to the literature on systemic functional linguistics by blending theoretical rigor with practical application, offering a multifaceted perspective that may influence future research and practice in the field. Its comprehensive coverage, interdisciplinary perspective, and innovative insights would make it an indispensable resource for anyone engaged in the theory or application of systemic functional linguistics.

Part I SFL: The theory. - Chapter 1 Verbal play: the coupling of the interpersonal and experiential meanings. - Chapter 2 From ineffability to terminology: grammatical metaphor in language evolution. - Chapter 3 Ergativity in Chinese Grammar. - Chapter 4 How grammar develops--A reflection on the four versions of IFG. - Chapter 5 The Syntactico-Semantic Analysis of the Existential Clauses in Chinese and English: The Cardiff Model. - Part II: SFL and ecolinguistics. - Chapter 6 Chinese Clause Types from an Organic View of Language. - Chapter 7 Self-realization in Ancient Chinese poetry: Toward an inclination-oriented eco-civilization. - Chapter 8 Ecological discourse analysis: A metafunctional perspective. - Chapter 9 The Ecological Image of Chinese Oil and Gas Companies in Climate Change Representation of the Sustainable Development Reports: A Corpus-Based Study. - Chapter 10 Sociality, Interaction, Function: The Consonance between Systemic-Functional Linguistics and Landsenses Ecology. - Part III SFL: Applications. - Chapter 11 The Court Interpreter s Dilemma: A Linguistic Investigation. - Chapter 12 Building Coherence in Storytelling. - Chapter 13 The Application of Systemic Functional Linguistics to Country and Area Studies: A Case Study of Linguistic Landscape in Kazakhstan. - Chapter 14 A genre-based approach to academic literacy in an ELT context. - Chapter 15 Appraising Crises during the Pandemic: A Corpus-assisted Discourse Study. - Chapter 16 A Text Simplification Analysis of Different Versions of Alice s Adventures in Wonderland. - Part IV: SFL and translation. - Chapter 17 Systemic Functional Linguistics in Translation Studies From linguistic shifts to social accountability. - Chapter 18 Researching Translation Quality Assessment: A Systemic-functional Linguistics Perspective. - Chapter 19 A Systemic Functional Study of the ChatGPT-aided English Translation of the Key Technical Terms in Mongolian Medicine. - Chapter 20 Translation as Textual Titration: A Study of Typological Specimens of Titration Patterns and Their Parametric Specifications. - References.