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Introducing Chinese Discourse: Methods of Analysis Empowered by Systemic Functional Linguistics book cover

1st Edition

Introducing Chinese Discourse Methods of Analysis Empowered by Systemic Functional Linguistics

By Bo Wang, Yuanyi Ma Copyright 2025
156 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

156 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

156 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this book introduces readers to the methods for analysing discourse/texts written and spoken in the Chinese language. It presents Chinese discourse as a semantic unit, adopting a trinocular view in terms of the hierarchy of stratification. The texts in this book are based on a comprehensive and rich archive, featuring not only text types available... Read more

1. Contextualizing Chinese discourse

2. Classifying Chinese discourse

3. Analysing Chinese discourse: Perspectives from above

4. Analsying Chinese discourse: Perspectives from roundabout

5. analysing Chinese discourse: Perspectives from below

6. Conclusion: Towards a map of Chinese discourse

Biography

Bo Wang is a researcher in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. 

Yuanyi Ma is a researcher at the Faculty of Education, Vancouver Island University, Canada. Bo Wang and Yuanyi Ma are co-authors of Lao She’s Teahouse and Its Two English Translations (2020), Systemic Functional Translation Studies (2021), Translating Tagore’s Stray Birds into Chinese (2021), Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics (with Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen and Isaac N. Mwinlaaru, 2022) and Introducing M.A.K. Halliday (2022).

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