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Corpus-based Approaches to Grammar, Media and Health Discourses

Systemic Functional and Other Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Bingjun Yang

    1. School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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  2. Wen Li

    1. School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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  • Highlights the potential of SFL in bringing together corpus-based studies on English grammar and discourses on media and health
  • Promotes SFL’s interaction with other theories and methods such as philosophy, genre studies, statistics, and corpus linguistics
  • Helps researchers and postgraduate students in SFL/corpus linguistics understand how SFL can be combined with corpus linguistics to study grammar and various discourses

Part of the book series: The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series (TMAKHLFLS)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Bingjun Yang, Wen Li
    Pages 1-14

  4. Media Discourse: Political and Academic

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. Participating and Expressing Attitudes in New Media: A Case Study of Comments on President Xi Jinping’s Speech at UN

      • Binjian Qin, Xiaoyu Zhang, Sut I Lam
      Pages 93-114

    3. Register Variation in Hellenistic Greek: Factor Analysis of Quantitative Linguistic Patterns

      • Stanley E. Porter, Ryder A. Wishart
      Pages 115-156

    4. Synergising Corpus, Functional and Cultural Approaches to Critical Discourse Studies: A Case Study of the Discursive Representation of Chinese Dream

      • Hang Su
      Pages 157-175

    5. The Discourse of Nkrumaism: A Corpus-informed Study

      • Mark Nartey
      Pages 177-196

    6. Concordancing China’s Friend, Foe and Frenemy: A Corpus-based CDA of Geopolitical Actors (Re)presented at China’s Interpreter-mediated Political Press Conferences

      • Chonglong Gu
      Pages 197-232

    7. Citation Functions in the Opening Phase of Research Articles: A Corpus-based Comparative Study

      • Kathy Ling Lin, Susie Xin Sui
      Pages 233-250

    8. Engagement Resources in Chinese College Students’ Argumentative Writings

      • Yilong Yang
      Pages 251-281

    9. Interpreter’s Role in Discourse and Context: A Corpus-based Study from the SFL Perspective

      • Yi Chen, Zhongwei Song
      Pages 283-316
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

    Bingjun Yang, Wen Li

About the editors

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). 

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