Systemic Functional Grammar: A Text-Based Description of English, Spanish and Chinese - Hardcover

Martin, J.R.; Quiroz, Beatriz; Wang, Pin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1009285009 ISBN 13: 9781009285001

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

By comparing English, Spanish and Chinese, this book shows how Systemic Functional Linguistics can address issues in language description.

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About the Authors

J. R. Martin is Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney and was Visiting Professor at the Department of Language Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is best known for his work on discourse analysis, appraisal and genre. In April 2014 Shanghai Jiao Tong University opened its Martin Centre for Appliable Linguistics, appointing Professor Martin as Director.

Beatriz Quiroz is Associate Professor in Language Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her current research, informed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), focuses on developing a text-based and functionally oriented description of Spanish grammar.

Pin Wang is Associate Professor at the Martin Centre for Appliable Linguistics of the School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. His chief research interests are Systemic Theory, Functional Grammar, and Functional Language Typology, with particular focus on Mandarin Chinese and minority languages of China.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009285009
• ISBN 13: 9781009285001
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 478