A Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese
A Text-Based Analysis
Published on 20. February 2007
Book
Hardback
292 pages
978-0-8264-9104-6 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Academics
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
605 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-9104-6 (9780826491046)
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Additional editions
Eden Sum-hung Li
A Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese
E-Book
02/2007
1st Edition
Continuum Publishing Corporation
€217.99
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Person
Eden Sum-hung Li is Research Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong.
Content
Foreword by M A K Halliday; 1. Historical and theoretical background; 2. Building block: below the clause; 3. Construing experience: clause as representation; 4. Construing connectivity: grammatical logic; 5. Enacting relationships: clause as exchange; 6. Enabling discourse: clause as message; 7. Above the clause: connexity of texts; References; Appendix.