System in Systemic Functional Linguistics - A System-based Theory of Language - Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

System in Systemic Functional Linguistics - A System-based Theory of Language - Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

The System in Different Domains of Application

System in Systemic Functional Linguistics - A System-based Theory of Language - Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen [+-]
University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), Beijing
Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen is a Swedish-born linguist and a leading figure in the systemic functional linguistics (SFL) school, having authored or co-authored more than 160 books, refereed journal articles, and papers in refereed conference proceedings, with contributions to three television programs. He is currently Distinguished Professor in the Department of Linguistics at University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, in the School of Foreign Languages, Hunan University, Guest Professor at Beijing Science and Technology University, and Honorary Professor at the Australian National University. Before this, he was Chair Professor, Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Professor in the Linguistics Department of Macquarie University. Professor Matthiessen has worked in areas as diverse as language typology, linguistics and computing, grammatical descriptions of various languages, grammar and discourse, healthcare communication studies, functional grammar for English-language teachers, text analysis and translation, multisemiotic studies, and the evolution of language. He has supervised over 40 research students.

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In the previous chapter, I was concerned with the deployment of systems and system networks as navigational tools in the study of language in general terms, including different regions along the cline of instantiation. Here I will continue on this theme, but move to interfaces between linguistics and applications that are sometimes seen as on the borders between linguistics and other disciplines. Systemic Functional Linguistics has been developed as a resource capable of supporting a wide range of applications; Halliday characterized this kind of linguistics as appliable linguistics. In this chapter, I am concerned with the notion of system in SFL in different domains of applications – centrally applications where system networks are used as representation of choice. As a kind of appliable linguistics, SFL has been deployed in a wide range of contexts, but I will only focus on examples of those where the system plays a central role. Thus in this chapter, I will only illustrate the appliability of ‘system’; and I will not focus on other aspects of SFL that have turned out to be of crucial importance in various areas of application.

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Matthiessen, Christian. The System in Different Domains of Application. System in Systemic Functional Linguistics - A System-based Theory of Language. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 163-199 Dec 2023. ISBN 9781781799024. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=38385. Date accessed: 28 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.38385. Dec 2023

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