Corpus-based Approaches to Grammar, Media and Health Discourses

Systemic Functional and Other Perspectives

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-06-24
Mått155 x 235 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieM.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series
Antal sidor396
FörlagSpringer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN9789811547737

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Dr. Bingjun Yang is a tenured Full Professor at SJTU. His research articles have appeared in such journals as Language Sciences (2004), Australian Journal of Linguistics (2014, 2015, 2018), Journal of Quantitative Linguistics (2015), Lingua (2018), and Social Semiotics (2019). His recent academic books include the co-authored Language Policy: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Approach (Routledge, 2017) and Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective: A Corpus-based Study (Springer, 2015). His research interests include systemic functional grammar, translation studies and corpus-based linguistic studies. Wen Li is a Ph.D. candidate in English Linguistics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, whose research interests include systemic functional linguistics, language of science, and corpus linguistics. His research articles and book reviews appeared in Social Semiotics (2019), Foreign Language Education (2018), and Foreign Language and Literature (2016).

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Part I: Grammar.- Chapter 2 A corpus-based study of transfers in English gerunds.- Chapter 3 Corpus linguistics as contextual prosodic theory (CPT) and subtext: A new and final linguistic theory.- Chapter 4 Idiomaticity in intercultural communication in English as lingua franca: A corpus-based study of verb-object combinations.- Part II: Media discourse: Political and academic.- Chapter 5 Participating and expressing attitudes in new media: A case study of comments on president Xi Jinping’s speech at UN.- Chapter 6 Register variation in Hellenistic Greek: Factor analysis of quantitative linguistic patterns.- Chapter 7 Synergising corpus, functional, and cultural approaches to critical discourse studies: A case study of the discursive representation of Chinese Dream.- Chapter 8 The discourse of Nkrumaism: A corpus-informed study.- Chapter 9 Concordancing China’s friend, foe and frenemy: A corpus-based CDA analysis of geopolitical actors (re)presented at China’s interpreter-mediated political press conferences.- Chapter 10 Citation functions in the opening phase of research articles: A corpus-based comparative study.- Chapter 11 Engagement resources in Chinese college students’ argumentative writings.- Chapter 12 Interpreter’s role in discourse and context: A corpus-based study from an SFL perspective.- Part III: Health discourse.- Chapter 13 A study of intersubjective representations of inferential information in health crisis news reporting.- Chapter 14 Creativity and television drama: A t-score and MI value cut-offs analysis of pattern-forming Creativity in House M.D..- Chapter 15 Interpersonal metaphor used in different discursive moves in reply posts of an online health forum.