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 SFLs 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The studies collected here are all original, unpublished research articles that address significant questions, deepen readers understanding of SFL, and promote its potential interaction with other theories.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.
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 Jinpings 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 discoursel£(
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