Functionalism: An Overview

Author: Hu Zhuanglin
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Publish Date: 2000-09-01
Features: The compilation of this book, "Discussions on Functionalism," and the preface were completed in August 1999. When the book was officially published, based on experience, it was already the 21st century, unintentionally becoming a work spanning two centuries. If this is a coincidence in time, then in terms of content, some articles in this book, although written in the 1990s, can still play a foundational role in the development of certain fields of linguistics in the new century. The second unit of this book introduces some theoretical issues of Systemic Functional Grammar. The specific content includes: General Introduction, Systemic Functional Grammar, American Functionalism, Discourse Analysis, Chinese and English Comparison, Semiotics and Cognition.