Introducing Systemic Functional Linguistics

Hui Yu is a Professor in the School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Beijing Normal University, China. She has published extensively in areas including genre analysis (Essentials to Genre Analysis, 2018), Systemic Functional Grammar, academic writing, and knowledge structure (research grant by Ministry of Education: A comparative study of knowledge structure across different educational discourses).Chenguang Chang is a Professor of Linguistics in the School of International Studies, Sun Yat-sen Univesity, China. His recent publications include Linguistic Sustainability (co-edited with Yu Changsen, 2020) and Critical Discourse and Corpus Approaches to Systemic Functional Grammar (co-edited with Josef Schmied and Matthias Hofmann, 2021).Bo Wang is a researcher in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. He is the co-author of Lao She’s Teahouse and Its Two English Translations (Routledge, 2020), Systemic Functional Translation Studies (2021), Introducing M.A.K. Halliday (Routledge, 2022), and Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics (2022).Yuanyi Ma is currently a researcher in the Faculty of Education, Vancouver Island University, Canada. She is the co-author of Translating Tagore’s Stray Birds into Chinese (Routledge, 2021) and co-editor of Key Themes and New Directions in Systemic Functional Translation Studies (Routledge, 2022) and Theorizing and Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics: Developments by Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen (Routledge, 2024).

• Part 1: Theory and description1. Getting started: What is Systemic Functional Linguistics?Hui Yu2. TRANSITIVITY: How do we construe our experiences?Zhiying Xin3. MOOD: How do we interact with each other?Dongbing Zhang4. MODALITY: Is it likely or is it desirable?Yingmei Qu5. APPRAISAL: How do we express our attitudes?Chenguang Chang6. Theme and information structure: How do we organize our messages?Yong Wang7. Cohesion: How are different parts of a text connected?Man Zhang8. Groups and phrases: What are their functions?Bingjun Yang9. Clause complex: How do we combine clauses?Linxiu Yang & Lei Zeng10. Grammatical metaphor: How can lexicogrammatical resources be expanded?Yanning Yang & Chenguang Chang11. Register: How does language use vary in different contexts?Yanmei GaoPart 2: Applications12. Systemic Functional Linguistics and translation studiesBo Wang, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen & Yuanyi Ma13. Systemic Functional Linguistics and multimodalityDezheng (William) Feng14. Systemic Functional Linguistics and language educationXiaotang Cheng