Systemic Functional Linguistics, Part 2 (Collected Works of Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen) - Hardcover

Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1049800044 ISBN 13: 9781049800042

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2025

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen is a distinguished professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of International Business and Economics, as well as distinguished professor of linguistics at Hunan University, guest professor at Beijing Science and Technology University, and honorary professor 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1049800044
• ISBN 13: 9781049800042
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 528
• Editor: Kazuhiro Teruya, Kaela Peijia, Diana Slade