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

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 in other languages and cultures, but also those unique in the Chinese language. The book is aimed at students and researchers working on SFL, language description, translation studies or related areas, as well as MA or doctoral students who have some basic knowledge about linguistics or discourse analysis.

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).