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Foreword ix
Acknowledgements xi
Historical and theoretical backgrounds 1
The history of the Chinese language 1
The history of the study of language in China 6
A brief introductory note to Systemic Functional Grammar 10
Semiotic system, stratification and realization 11
Language potential and instantiation 12
Modes of meaning in language 13
Rank, axis and delicacy 14
The organization of the book 17
Building blocks: Below the clause 19
Morphemes, syllables and characters 19
Word classes 21
Verbal groups 21
Verbal premodifiers 21
Verbal postmodifiers 23
Nominal groups 24
Nominal Heads 25
Nominal premodifiers 25
Adverbial groups 29
Adverb as Head 29
Adjectival verb as Head 31
Coverbal phrases 32
Circumstantial type of coverbal phrases 32
Participant type of coverbal phrases 34
Construing experience: Clause as representation 37
Construing ourexperience: FIGURES 37
Construing the world of consciousness 41
Construing the world of symbolization 42
Construing the world of material reality 42
Construing the world of abstract relations 42
Realizing our experience in the grammar: Transitivity 43
Material processes 46
Relational processes 49
Verbal processes 54
Mental processes 57
Temporal profile 58
The system of Aspect 61
The system of Phase 63
Temporal adverbs 63
Relative sequence of verbal groups 64
Locative profile 65
Construing relationships: The natural logic of language 69
The natural logic of language 69
Relative order of reality among figures 70
Relative status among figures 72
Clause complexes 73
Taxis 76
Logico-semantic types 77
Linkage in a clause nexuses 97
Number of conjunctions in a clause nexus 98
Structures of a clause nexus 99
Enacting relationships: Clause as exchange 103
Enacting our social relationships: Speech Function 105
Realizing our social relationships in the grammar: Mood 111
Encoding speech functions: Mood Type 112
Negotiating the validity: Polarity 132
Evaluating the commitment and responsibility: Modality 134
Assessing the degree of forcefulness: Assessment 144
Enacting social relationships through bound clauses 153
Enabling discourse: Clause as message 159
Constructing messages: Textual Prominence and Textual Status 160
Textual prominences of an information chunk 160
Textual statuses of a message 163
Regulating the flow of information 1: Theme 170
Textual Theme 172
Interpersonal Theme 173
Topical Theme 176
Regulating the flow of information 2: Information 186
Information unit and structure 186
Contrasting parallel clauses 188
Emphatic particles 188
Wh-type interrogative elements 189
Regulating the flow of information 3: Voice 189
The ba-and bei-constructions and textual motivation 190
Voice and Theme 196
The system of Voice 198
Variants of the ba-and bei-constructions and the flow of Information 201
A short note on other aspects of the bei- and ba- constructions 206
Above the clause: Creation of texts 209
Identification and continuation of information: Textual Continuity 210
Recoverability of information 216
Source of information 217
Semantic relation between information 217
Other features 218
Grammatical realization of Textual Continuity: Cohesion 220
Continuity of messages: Textual Transition 224
The system of Logico-Semantic Types 225
The system of Conjunction 226
Guidance of unfolding text: Textual Development 228
Patterns of thematic selection in different text types 229
Patterns of thematic selection in the whole novel 237
Patterns of thematic progression 244
Logogenetic patterns of an unfolding text 256
Systemic notation conventions 265
References 267
Index 277
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