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Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics

(2022年新书)

Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics

本书作者：

Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, Bo Wang（王博）, Yuanyi Ma（马园艺）, Isaac N. Mwinlaaru

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内容简介

This book features a collection of 10 interviews with Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, who is a key figure in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and has collaborated closely with M.A.K. Halliday since the 1980s. As noted by Professor Chang Chenguang, Editor of the M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series, “this collection of interviews serves as an important reference for scholars and students of SFL. It provides a unique perspective on the theoretical development and future outlooks of SFL, as well as Matthiessen’s own interpretations of the theory. It also enriches our understanding of SFL and is a very useful addition to the series.” Written in an engaging dialogic format, the book paints a vivid picture of SFL thriving among the landscape of general linguistics and of SFL as an important tool now being applied in various areas.

本书作者

Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen is Distinguished Professor, School of International Studies, University of International Business and Economics. 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, language typology and comparison, translation studies, multi-semiotic 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), 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), and Systemic Functional Linguistics, Part I (2021), Volume 1 of The Collected Works of Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen (in 8 volumes with Equinox, edited by Kazuhiro Teruya and his team).

Bo Wang and Yuanyi Ma are researchers in China. Their research interests include Systemic Functional Linguistics, translation studies, discourse analysis and language description. They are co-authors of Lao She’s Teahouse and Its Two English Translations: Exploring Chinese Drama Translation with Systemic Functional Linguistics (Routledge, 2020), Systemic Functional Translation Studies: Theoretical Insights and New Directions (Equinox, 2021), Translating Tagore’s Stray Birds into Chinese: Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics to Chinese Poetry Translation (Routledge, 2021), Introducing M.A.K. Halliday (Routledge, 2022), Introducing Chinese Discourse (Routledge, forthcoming), Mini-explorations of Systemic Functional Grammar (Equinox, forthcoming, with Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen) and Mini-explorations of Language (Equinox, forthcoming, with Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen). They are co-editors of Key Themes and New Directions in Systemic Functional Translation Studies (Routledge, 2022), Readings in Systemic Functional Translation Studies (Volumes 1 & 2) (Equinox, forthcoming, with Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen) and Theorizing and Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics: Developments by Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen (Routledge, forthcoming). They are translators of Wang Li’s Modern Chinese Grammar (Volumes 1-4) (Routledge, 2023) and co-editors of the Chinese Culture Section of The Routledge Encyclopedia of Chinese Studies.

Isaac N. Mwinlaaru completed his PhD at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and is Lecturer at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. His research areas include systemic functional theory (and the meta-theory of language in general), language description and typology, grammaticalization, literary stylistics, English for specific/academic purposes, and (critical) discourse studies. His research focuses on English and Niger-Congo languages, particularly Akan (Kwa) and Dagaare (Gur). He has published papers in internationally recognized journals, such as Functions of Language, Functional Linguistics, Research in African Literatures, Sociolinguistic Studies, and Power & Education.

本书目录

Foreword

Preface

About the Authors

List of Abbreviations

List of Figures

List of Tables

Part I Personal History

Chapter 1 The Way into Systemic Functional Linguistics

Chapter 2 Life and Work of Christian Matthiessen (Part I)

Chapter 3 Life and Work of Christian Matthiessen (Part II)

Part II Systemic Functional Theory and Its applications

Chapter 4 Conceptual Issues in Systemic Functional Linguistics

Chapter 5 Computational Linguistics

Chapter 6 Cognition in Systemic Functional Linguistics

Chapter 7 Systemic Functional Language Typology

Chapter 8 Translation as a Linguistic Process

Chapter 9 Theoretical Contributions to Translation Studies

Chapter 10 Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics to Translation Studies around the World

Epilogue

Appendix: A Selected Bibliography of Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen’s Publications

Index

序言 （常晨光教授作序）

As one of Halliday’s closest collaborators, Christian Matthiessen has made significant contributions to the development of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). Since he first became acquainted with Halliday’s work as a university student, he has devoted himself to the study and development of SFL theory, extended the scope of its applications, and mentored students and junior scholars in many parts of the world. This collection of interviews with Christian Matthiessen brings us closer to his life and work, as well as his reflections and insights on a range of theoretical and appliable issues.

This volume, which consists of ten interviews, takes the reader through Matthiessen’s life and work in different parts of the world to key conceptual issues in SFL and its application in computational linguistics, cognitive linguistics, language typology and translation studies. In the first part, Personal Histories, the interviewers focus on questions relating to Matthiessen’s early interest in SFL, the connections and interactions between SFL and other schools of linguistics in the European and American traditions, most notably the Prague School and West Coast Functionalism. Through recounts of his experiences studying and working in Europe, the United States, Australia and Hong Kong SAR, China, Matthiessen highlights the distinctive features of SFL and its contributions to our understanding of language. For me, it is particularly interesting to read his account of how he first became fascinated by Halliday’s publications and decided to work on his mini-thesis Hallidayan Linguistics at Lund University, his very first meeting with Halliday at Stanford University, and then traveling every day for several hours from Los Angeles to attend Halliday’s lectures at UC Irvine, and so on. I believe this excitement of “things finally clicked” on first encountering Halliday’s work resonates with many of us working with SFL.

In the second part, Systemic Functional Linguistics and Its Applications, Matthiessen discusses some key conceptual issues in SFL by explaining the meanings of “systemic” and “functional”, the different phases of development of SFL, the contributions of SFL to computational linguistics and text generation, the meaning-based approach to cognitive linguistics, language typology and description informed by SFL, and translation studies. Apart from being an outstanding grammarian, who collaborated with Halliday in revising the Introduction to Functional Grammar, Matthiessen has always been trying to enrich and develop SFL theory. In exploring the connections with other areas of research, Matthiessen emphasizes all along the importance of focusing on language and using SFL as a key resource. He argues, for example, that the only way to explain cognition is “by reference to language and other semiotic systems”. He also urges people working on translation studies to engage with language or language in context, which is “the most central phenomenon in translation”.

As Matthiessen once commented elsewhere, Halliday’s assumptions about language were “wide-ranging and proactive in nature”, and the significance of many of these remain to be further explored. I very much agree with Matthiessen on the importance of encouraging team-based research and enabling teamwork for the healthy and sustainable development of SFL.

The interviews are well structured with carefully prepared questions to bring out Matthiessen’s thinking on a broad range of issues. The engagingly dialogic style of this volume makes it much more accessible than Matthiessen’s other publications. For researchers, postgraduates and undergraduate students working in SFL, computation linguistics, cognitive linguistics, language typology and translation studies, these interviews will make essential reading. I feel privileged to be among the first readers of this volume, and I congratulate Christian Matthiessen and the three interviewers, Bo Wang, Yuanyi Ma and Isaac N. Mwinlaaru, on successfully putting this collection of interviews together.

As series editor of the M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series, I am very pleased to have this welcome addition included, and I believe readers will enjoy reading it.

Chenguang Chang

Sun Yat-sen University

July 25, 2020 

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