YU Hui is a professor of School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Beijing Normal University. Her research interests include genre studies, systemic functional linguistics and academic discourse. Her recent publications include Introducing Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory, description and application (co-edited with Chang Chenguang, Wang Bo and Ma Yuanyi, Routledge 2026); Explorations in Systemic Functional Linguistics (co-edited with Chang Chenguang, Springer 2026), Thompson, G. 2026. Introducing Functional Grammar (Yu Hui, Song Jinge & Wang Le, Trans.). Commercial Press forthcoming. Original work published 2013). She is currently undertaking a translation project of A History of Chinese Grammar by Wang Li, supported by The National Social Science Fund of China.

• Opening remarks.- Towards an understanding of the notion of genre.- Genre analysis and system network.- Modeling generic structures.- Periodicity: thematic patterns.- Ideation: construing experiential organization.- Lexical texture: keeping track.- Conjunctive relations: logic in text.- Envoi.

YU Hui is a professor of School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Beijing Normal University. Her research interests include genre studies, systemic functional linguistics and academic discourse. Her recent publications include Introducing Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory, description and application (co-edited with Chang Chenguang, Wang Bo and Ma Yuanyi, Routledge 2026); Explorations in Systemic Functional Linguistics (co-edited with Chang Chenguang, Springer 2026), Thompson, G. 2026. Introducing Functional Grammar (Yu Hui, Song Jinge & Wang Le, Trans.). Commercial Press forthcoming. Original work published 2013). She is currently undertaking a translation project of A History of Chinese Grammar by Wang Li, supported by The National Social Science Fund of China.

• Opening remarks.- Towards an understanding of the notion of genre.- Genre analysis and system network.- Modeling generic structures.- Periodicity: thematic patterns.- Ideation: construing experiential organization.- Lexical texture: keeping track.- Conjunctive relations: logic in text.- Envoi.

YU Hui is a professor of School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Beijing Normal University. Her research interests include genre studies, systemic functional linguistics and academic discourse. Her recent publications include Introducing Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory, description and application (co-edited with Chang Chenguang, Wang Bo and Ma Yuanyi, Routledge 2026); Explorations in Systemic Functional Linguistics (co-edited with Chang Chenguang, Springer 2026), Thompson, G. 2026. Introducing Functional Grammar (Yu Hui, Song Jinge & Wang Le, Trans.). Commercial Press forthcoming. Original work published 2013). She is currently undertaking a translation project of A History of Chinese Grammar by Wang Li, supported by The National Social Science Fund of China.

• Opening remarks.- Towards an understanding of the notion of genre.- Genre analysis and system network.- Modeling generic structures.- Periodicity: thematic patterns.- Ideation: construing experiential organization.- Lexical texture: keeping track.- Conjunctive relations: logic in text.- Envoi.