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Record Nr.

UNINA9910595055403321

Autore

Fang Jing

Titolo

A Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese Nominal Groups : A Text-Based Approach / / by Jing Fang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

9789811940095

9789811940088

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 pages)

Collana

The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series, , 2198-9877

Disciplina

495.15

Soggetti

Linguistics

Language acquisition

Literature

Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar

Language Acquisition and Development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Approaches to nominal group -- Logical resources of Chinese nominal group -- Experiential resources of Chinese nominal group -- Interpersonal resources of Chinese nominal group -- Textual resources of Chinese nominal group -- Metaphor in Chinese nominal group.-Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book describes the grammar of Chinese nominal groups for the purpose of text analysis, drawing upon Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model. Exploring the metafunctional grammatical resources in nominal groups, the book provides a new perspective on conducting text analysis by focusing on the metafunctions performed by various elements in the nominal group. The observations on nominal groups presented here are based on both a working corpus of 180 texts of various types and a large referential corpus of over 16 billion tokens. With clear descriptions of the terminology used, the book presents a case study at the end of each major chapter, which demonstrates how the grammatical resources discussed can be applied to the delicate analysis of authentic texts. This monograph is more than a grammar book, for it offers a new way to engage with a text



microscopically and enables readers to approach and analyse a text by focusing on grammatical units below the clause level. The book provides an accessible and valuable resource for readers who are interested in SFL-based typological description, text analysis, translation studies between English and Chinese, English–Chinese comparative linguistic studies, and Chinese language teaching and learning. .