Overview

Meaning in Context collects some of the biggest names in systemic functional linguistics in one volume, and shows how this theory can be applied to language studies ‘intelligently', in order to arrive at a better understanding of how meaning is constructed in language. The chapters use systemic functional theory to examine a range of issues including corpus linguistics, multimodality, language technology, world Englishes and language evolution. This forward-thinking volume will be of interest to researchers in applied linguistics and systemic functional linguistics.

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Author:   Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9780826497352

ISBN 10:   0826497357
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   21 April 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Centre in Context, Jonathan J. Webster Opening Address: Working with Meaning: Towards an Appliable Linguistics, M. A. K. Halliday 1. Systemic Functional Linguistics and the Notion of Linguistic Structure: Unanswered Questions, New Possibilities, John A. Bateman 2. The Robustness of Realizational Systems, David G. Butt 3. A Study of Topical Theme in Chinese: An SFL Perspective, Fang Yan 4. How is Meaning Construed Multimodally? A Case Study of a PowerPoint Presentation Contest, Hu Zhuanglin and Dong Jia 5. A Systemic Functional Approach to Code-switching Studies: Some Chinese-English Examples, Huang Guowen and Wang Jin 6. Multilingual Studies as a Multi-dimensional Space of Interconnected Language Studies, Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen, Kazuhiro Teruya and Wu Canzhong 7. The Scamseek Project - Using Systemic Functional Grammar for Text Categorization, Jon Patrick 8. Explicitation: Towards an Empirical and Corpus-based Methodology, Erich Steiner 9. Creativity in English Globalized: Signifiers and Their Signifieds, Edwin Thumboo 10. Nominalization, Verbalization and Grammatical Metaphor, Zhu Yongsheng

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Not many linguistics put their theory on the line and purposefully re/design it for the applications it needs to serve. This group of scholars does so, par excellence, across such diverse arenas as education, computer science, language policy and medicine. East meets West in a series of insightful discussions befitting the launch of the Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies at City University Hong Kong --,

Not many linguistics put their theory on the line and purposefully re/design it for the applications it needs to serve. This group of scholars does so, par excellence, across such diverse arenas as education, computer science, language policy and medicine. East meets West in a series of insightful discussions befitting the launch of the Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies at City University Hong Kong --Professor J. R. Martin, University of Sydney, Australia

Author Information

Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also the Managing Editor of the International Linguistics Association’s journal WORD, and the editor of the forthcoming Journal of World Languages (2014).

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