A Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese
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A Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese

  1. 292 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese

About this book

This book presents an analysis of Chinese grammar from a systemic functional perspective. Its main focus is the clausal grammar of Chinese, and Dr Li provides a thorough analysis of Chinese clauses according to their constituent parts. However, uniquely, the second half of the book extends this examination into an analysis of Chinese discourse and text analysis. Professor Halliday's foreword praises Eden Li's thorough analysis, and shows its relevance to the field of systemic functional linguistics in general. Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese provides the reader with a general theoretical framework of grammar and discourse analysis from a systemic functional perspective.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. 1 Historical and theoretical backgrounds
  5. 2 Building blocks: Below the clause
  6. 3 Construing experience: Clause as representation
  7. 4 Construing relationships: The natural logic of language
  8. 5 Enacting relationships: Clause as exchange
  9. 6 Enabling discourse: Clause as message
  10. 7 Above the clause: Creation of texts
  11. Appendix 1: Systemic notation conventions
  12. References
  13. Index