Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics

Foreword by Professor Chang Chenguang.- Preface.- Part I Personal Histories.- 1 Motivation of Moving into Systemic Functional Linguistics.- 2 Language Turned Back on Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen (Part I).- 3 Language Turned Back on Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen (Part II).- Part II General Linguistics.- 4 Linguistic Theories (Part I).- 5 Linguistic Theories (Part II).- 6 Linguistic Theories (Part III).- Part III Systemic Functional Theory.- 7 Conceptual Issues in Systemic Functional Linguistics.- 8 Appliable Linguistics.- 9 Register in Systemic Functional Linguistics (Part I).- 10 Register in Systemic Functional Linguistics (Part II).- Part IV Applications of Systemic Functional Linguistic.- 11 Educational Linguistics.- 12 Translation Studies (Part I).- 13 Translation Studies (Part II).- 14 Translation Studies (Part III).- 15 Healthcare Communication.- Epilogue by ChristianM.I.M. Matthiessen.- Index.- A Selected Bibliography of Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen's Publications.  

Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, School of Foreign Languages, Hunan University, Honorary Professor at the Australian National University and Guest Professor at the Beijing Science and Technology University. His research has covered a wide range of areas (all informed by Systemic Functional Linguistics), including analysis of many kinds of discourse, corpus compilation and corpus-based studies, register analysis and context-based text typology, the development of Rhetorical Structure Theory (jointly with Bill Mann and Sandy Thompson), the description of English and other languages spoken around the world, multilingual studies (language typology and comparison, translation studies), multisemiotic studies, healthcare communication studies, institutional linguistics, computational linguistics, the evolution of language, and systemic functional theory. Matthiessen has authored and co-authored over 150 book chapters and journal articles. His books include Systemic Linguistics and Text Generation: Experiences from Japanese and English (with John Bateman, 1991), Lexicogrammatical Cartography: English Systems (1995), Working with Functional Grammar (with J.R. Martin and Clare Painter, 1997), Construing Experience: A Language-based Approach to Cognition (with M.A.K. Halliday, 1999/ 2006), Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar (revised version of Halliday's book, with M.A.K. Halliday, 2014), Language Typology: A Functional Perspective (edited, with Alice Caffarel & J.R. Martin, 2004), Continuing Discourse on Language (edited, with Ruqaiya Hasan and Jonathan Webster, 2005 and 2007), Systemic Functional Grammar: A First Step into the Theory (with M.A.K. Halliday, 2009), Key Terms in Systemic Functional Linguistics (with Kazuhiro Teruya and Marvin Lam, 2010), Deploying Functional Grammar (with J.R. Martin and Clare Painter, 2010), Systemic Functional Linguistics, Part I (2021), Volume 1 of The Collected Works of Christian