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Meaning in Context
Strategies for Implementing Intelligent Applications
of Language Studies
Edited by Jonathan J. Webster
continuum
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Contents
Introduction: The Centre in Context 1
Jonathan J. Webster
Opening Address: Working with Meaning: Towards an Appliable
Linguistics 7
M. A. K. Halliday
1. Systemic Functional Linguistics and the Notion of Linguistic
Structure: Unanswered Questions, New Possibilities 24
John A. Bateman
2. The Robustness of Realizational Systems 59
David G. Butt
3. A Study of Topical Theme in Chinese: An SFL Perspective 84
Fang Yan
4. How is Meaning Construed Multimodally? A Case Study of a
PowerPoint Presentation Contest 115
Hu Zhuanglin and Dongjia
5. A Systemic Functional Approach to Code-switching Studies:
Some Chinese-English Examples 130
Huang Guowen and Wang Jin
6. Multilingual Studies as a Multi-dimensional Space of
Interconnected Language Studies 146
Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen, Kazuhiro Teruya and Wu Canzhong
7. The Scamseek Project - Using Systemic Functional Grammar for
Text Categorization 221
Jon Patrick
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