A Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese
, by Li, Eden Sum-Hung
- ISBN: 9780826491046 | 0826491049
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 4/20/2007
An analysis of Chinese from a systemic functional perspective
Eden Sum-hung Li is Research Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong.
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| Historical and theoretical backgrounds | p. 1 |
| The history of the Chinese language | p. 1 |
| The history of the study of language in China | p. 6 |
| A brief introductory note to Systemic Functional Grammar | p. 10 |
| Semiotic system, stratification and realization | p. 11 |
| Language potential and instantiation | p. 12 |
| Modes of meaning in language | p. 13 |
| Rank, axis and delicacy | p. 14 |
| The organization of the book | p. 17 |
| Building blocks: Below the clause | p. 19 |
| Morphemes, syllables and characters | p. 19 |
| Word classes | p. 21 |
| Verbal groups | p. 21 |
| Verbal premodifiers | p. 21 |
| Verbal postmodifiers | p. 23 |
| Nominal groups | p. 24 |
| Nominal Heads | p. 25 |
| Nominal premodifiers | p. 25 |
| Adverbial groups | p. 29 |
| Adverb as Head | p. 29 |
| Adjectival verb as Head | p. 31 |
| Coverbal phrases | p. 32 |
| Circumstantial type of coverbal phrases | p. 32 |
| Participant type of coverbal phrases | p. 34 |
| Construing experience: Clause as representation | p. 37 |
| Construing our experience: FIGURES | p. 37 |
| Construing the world of consciousness | p. 41 |
| Construing the world of symbolization | p. 42 |
| Construing the world of material reality | p. 42 |
| Construing the world of abstract relations | p. 42 |
| Realizing our experience in the grammar: Transitivity | p. 43 |
| Material processes | p. 46 |
| Relational processes | p. 49 |
| Verbal processes | p. 54 |
| Mental processes | p. 57 |
| Temporal profile | p. 58 |
| The system of Aspect | p. 61 |
| The system of Phase | p. 63 |
| Temporal adverbs | p. 63 |
| Relative sequence of verbal groups | p. 64 |
| Locative profile | p. 65 |
| Construing relationships: The natural logic of language | p. 69 |
| The natural logic of language | p. 69 |
| Relative order of reality among figures | p. 70 |
| Relative status among figures | p. 72 |
| Clause complexes | p. 73 |
| Taxis | p. 76 |
| Logico-semantic types | p. 77 |
| Linkage in a clause nexuses | p. 97 |
| Number of conjunctions in a clause nexus | p. 98 |
| Structures of a clause nexus | p. 99 |
| Enacting relationships: Clause as exchange | p. 103 |
| Enacting our social relationships: Speech Function | p. 105 |
| Realizing our social relationships in the grammar: Mood | p. 111 |
| Encoding speech functions: Mood Type | p. 112 |
| Negotiating the validity: Polarity | p. 132 |
| Evaluating the commitment and responsibility: Modality | p. 134 |
| Assessing the degree of forcefulness: Assessment | p. 144 |
| Enacting social relationships through bound clauses | p. 153 |
| Enabling discourse: Clause as message | p. 159 |
| Constructing messages: Textual Prominence and Textual Status | p. 160 |
| Textual prominences of an information chunk | p. 160 |
| Textual statuses of a message | p. 163 |
| Regulating the flow of information 1: Theme | p. 170 |
| Textual Theme | p. 172 |
| Interpersonal Theme | p. 173 |
| Topical Theme | p. 176 |
| Regulating the flow of information 2: Information | p. 186 |
| Information unit and structure | p. 186 |
| Contrasting parallel clauses | p. 188 |
| Emphatic particles | p. 188 |
| Wh-type interrogative elements | p. 189 |
| Regulating the flow of information 3: Voice | p. 189 |
| The ba-and bei-constructions and textual motivation | p. 190 |
| Voice and Theme | p. 196 |
| The system of Voice | p. 198 |
| Variants of the ba-and bei-constructions and the flow of Information | p. 201 |
| A short note on other aspects of the bei- and ba- constructions | p. 206 |
| Above the clause: Creation of texts | p. 209 |
| Identification and continuation of information: Textual Continuity | p. 210 |
| Recoverability of information | p. 216 |
| Source of information | p. 217 |
| Semantic relation between information | p. 217 |
| Other features | p. 218 |
| Grammatical realization of Textual Continuity: Cohesion | p. 220 |
| Continuity of messages: Textual Transition | p. 224 |
| The system of Logico-Semantic Types | p. 225 |
| The system of Conjunction | p. 226 |
| Guidance of unfolding text: Textual Development | p. 228 |
| Patterns of thematic selection in different text types | p. 229 |
| Patterns of thematic selection in the whole novel | p. 237 |
| Patterns of thematic progression | p. 244 |
| Logogenetic patterns of an unfolding text | p. 256 |
| Systemic notation conventions | p. 265 |
| References | p. 267 |
| Index | p. 277 |
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