Systemic Functional Linguistics, Part 2
Will be published approx. on 30. December 2025
Book
Hardback
512 pages
978-1-0498-0004-2 (ISBN)
Description
The second volume of Systemic Functional Linguistics contains Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen's papers on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) spanning forty years from 1981 to the present.
This updated volume builds on the foundation developed in Volume 1, focusing on theoretically guided modelling of language in computational linguistic systems and on key aspects of the theory such as metafunction, rank (the conception of morphology), indeterminacy, and probability. This volume also includes a treatment of systemic functional metatheory - the theory of the nature and applicability of theory. The new chapter written for Volume 2 extends the discussion of the challenge of theorizing language to the challenge of modelling language for neurosemiotics, thus paying attention to the applicability of systemic functional linguistics. This volume captures Matthiessen's expanding research and addresses core aspects of SFL to help students, instructors, and all readers discover the wealth of Matthiessen's systemic functional work.
This updated volume builds on the foundation developed in Volume 1, focusing on theoretically guided modelling of language in computational linguistic systems and on key aspects of the theory such as metafunction, rank (the conception of morphology), indeterminacy, and probability. This volume also includes a treatment of systemic functional metatheory - the theory of the nature and applicability of theory. The new chapter written for Volume 2 extends the discussion of the challenge of theorizing language to the challenge of modelling language for neurosemiotics, thus paying attention to the applicability of systemic functional linguistics. This volume captures Matthiessen's expanding research and addresses core aspects of SFL to help students, instructors, and all readers discover the wealth of Matthiessen's systemic functional work.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 157 mm
Width: 238 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
822 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0498-0004-2 (9781049800042)
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Persons
Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen is professor of linguistics at Complutense University of Madrid.
Kazuhiro Teruya is an associate professor in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at Hang Seng University of Hong Kong.
Kaela Peijia Zhang is a lecturer in the Department of English at Hang Seng University of Hong Kong.
Diana Slade is a professor of applied linguistics and director of the Institute for Communication in Health Care at the Australian National University.
Kazuhiro Teruya is an associate professor in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at Hang Seng University of Hong Kong.
Kaela Peijia Zhang is a lecturer in the Department of English at Hang Seng University of Hong Kong.
Diana Slade is a professor of applied linguistics and director of the Institute for Communication in Health Care at the Australian National University.
Content
Foreword
David Butt
Editorial Introduction
Kazuhiro Teruya, Kaela Peijia Zhang, and Diana Slade
Introduction
Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
1. A Grammar and a Lexicon for a Text-Production System
2. Systemic Grammar in Computation: The NIGEL Case
3. Semantics for a Systemic Grammar: The Chooser and Inquiry Framework
4. Two Approaches to Semantic Interfaces in Text Generation
5. Metafunctional Complementarity and Resonance in Syntagmatic Organization
6. Fuzziness Construed in Language: A Linguistic Perspective
7. On the Idea of Theory-Neutral Descriptions
8. Interview with Christian Matthiessen (Cardiff, 1998)
9. Halliday's Conception of Language as a Probabilistic System
10. Instantial Systems and Logogenesis
11. Systemic Functional Morphology: The Lexicogrammar of the Word
12. The Architecture of Language According to SFL: Some Reflections on Implications for Neurosemiotics
David Butt
Editorial Introduction
Kazuhiro Teruya, Kaela Peijia Zhang, and Diana Slade
Introduction
Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
1. A Grammar and a Lexicon for a Text-Production System
2. Systemic Grammar in Computation: The NIGEL Case
3. Semantics for a Systemic Grammar: The Chooser and Inquiry Framework
4. Two Approaches to Semantic Interfaces in Text Generation
5. Metafunctional Complementarity and Resonance in Syntagmatic Organization
6. Fuzziness Construed in Language: A Linguistic Perspective
7. On the Idea of Theory-Neutral Descriptions
8. Interview with Christian Matthiessen (Cardiff, 1998)
9. Halliday's Conception of Language as a Probabilistic System
10. Instantial Systems and Logogenesis
11. Systemic Functional Morphology: The Lexicogrammar of the Word
12. The Architecture of Language According to SFL: Some Reflections on Implications for Neurosemiotics