J. R. Martin, Beatriz Quiroz & Pin Wang. 2023. Systemic functional grammar: A text-based description of English, Spanish and Chinese

an escalating academic interest in SFLD.This surge included both theoretical works such as Matthiessen and Halliday (2009) and Martin (2013), as well as language-specific descriptions as surveyed by Mwinlaaru and Xuan (2016).Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of research outcomes in SFLD, including Mwinlaaru (2017), Mwinlaaru et al. (2018), Martin (2018), Martin et al. (2020), Martin et al. (2021), Kadooka (2021), Doran et al. (2021a, 2021b, 2022a, 2022b), and Kim et al. (2023), among others.Systemic functional grammar: A text-based description of English, Spanish, and Chinese, against this background, aims to elucidate the theory and reasoning underpinning SFLD in a pedagogical manner, so as to foster more scholarly endeavors in this domain.This book, apart from an introduction and a summary chapter, comprises five chapters, individually dedicated to exploring the nominal group, verbal group, mood, transitivity, and theme in English, Spanish, and Chinese.Each chapter initially reviews context variables and discourse semantic systems relevant to the considered grammar systems before delving into the core grammar systems and structures.Chapter 1 introduces the background and objectives of the book, laying the theoretical and methodological groundwork.This book aims to guide readers through both the theoretical framework and the practical reasoning which are essential to establish comprehensive descriptions.In terms of theory, this chapter introduces the semiotic dimensions of axis, stratification, metafunction, and rank in SFL.The axis dimension privileges paradigmatic relations over syntagmatic ones in SFLD.The stratification dimension distinguishes between the context stratum and the language stratum.The former, characterized by degrees of symbolic abstraction, includes genre and register as distinct levels, and the latter comprises discourse