Overview

This volume brings together contributions to a key area of interest within the framework of systemic functional linguistics: the role of meaning in the lexicogrammar. A key figure in the debate on this role is Robin Fawcett who has long argued for a fully semantic lexicogrammar where the relevant systems are seen as representing `choices between meanings'. This volume, a festschrift in honour of Fawcett's long-standing contribution to the field, raises important questions related to lexicogrammatical meaning within systemic functional linguistics by examining the meaning-form interface, lexicogrammatical meaning in theme and transitivity, as well as lexis, intonation and its role in computational models. Importantly, discussions in the volume also explore the relationship between alternative approaches to systemic functional lexicogrammar, notably between the Hallidayan model and the Cardiff Grammar model developed primarily by Robin Fawcett.

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Author:   Gordon Tucker ,  Guowen Huang ,  Lise Fontaine ,  Edward McDonald
Publisher:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
ISBN:  

9781781796863

ISBN 10:   1781796866
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   03 August 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Introduction Gordon Tucker, Guowen Huang, Lise Fontaine and Edward McDonald Section 1: Divergence 1. Finding Complementarity in the Approaches of M.A.K. Halliday and Robin Fawcett Jonathan Webster, City University of Hong Kong 2. Relating Form and Meaning: A Comparison of the Cardiff Grammar with Other Functional and/or Cognitive/Constructionist Approaches Christopher Butler, Swansea University 3. On the Abstractness of Levels of Description in Systemic Functional Linguistics Mick O'Donnell, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid 4. Embedding in the Cardiff Grammar: A Comparative Study Zhang Delu, Tongji University 5. `United but not the Same': Exploring Ways of Talking across Divergence within SFL Edward McDonald Section 2: Convergence 6. From Form to Meaning in the Cardiff Model of Language and Its Use: A Functional-Syntactic Analysis of `He has been Talking about Going to the Grand Canyon with Margaret for Many Years' Guowen Huang 7. On the Meaning-Form Interface of the Cardiff Grammar Victor Castel, National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina 8. Lexical Representation in the Cardiff Grammar: An Appraisal Gordon Tucker 9. Referring and the Nominal Group: A Closer Look at the Selector Element Lise Fontaine and David Schoenthal, Cardiff University Section 3: Description 10. Quantifying Things: The `Quantifying Modifier' and its Raising Construction in Japanese Hiroshi Funamoto, Hokuriku University 11. Intonation in Semantic System Networks Paul Tench, Cardiff University 12. On Choosing the Subject Theme Margaret Berry, University of Nottingham (retired) 13. Negation in Japanese: A New Treatment of Nai as a Process Type in the Japanese Transitivity Network - A Kyoto Grammar Approach Masaaki Tatsuki, Doshisha University 14. An Alternative Model of the Transitivity System of Chinese Wei He, Beijing Foreign Studies University 15. The Ideational Semantics of the Canonical Existential Clause in English Kristin Davidse, Catholic University of Leuven Section 4: Towards Consilience 16. Models - Predictions - Data: An (Un)Problematic Relationship? Erich Steiner, Saarland University

Reviews

As I review the list of insightful and substantial contributions to this volume by scholars who (like me!) admire, and have benefited from, Robin's enormous multi-faceted contributions to linguistics in general and to our academic community in particular, I am of course struck by the variety of contributions, both in terms of geography and in terms of subject matter. This is entirely appropriate, reflecting Robin's engagement with and support of scholars and students around the world. From the Foreword by Professor Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

As I review the list of insightful and substantial contributions to this volume by scholars who (like me!) admire, and have benefited from, Robin's enormous multi-faceted contributions to linguistics in general and to our academic community in particular, I am of course struck by the variety of contributions, both in terms of geography and in terms of subject matter. This is entirely appropriate, reflecting Robin's engagement with and support of scholars and students around the world. From the Foreword by Professor Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Author Information

Gordon Tucker was formerly Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University, and is now, in retirement, Honorary Research Fellow in the same Centre. Guowen Huang is Dean of the College of Foreign Studies and Director of Centre for Ecolinguistics at South China Agricultural University, in Guangzhou, China. Lise Fontaine is a Reader in the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University. Edward McDonald is Professor in Functional Linguistics in the School of Foreign Languages at Sun Yat-sen University, China.

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