Introducing Chinese Discourse

Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this book introduces readers to the methods for analysing discourse/texts written and spoken in the Chinese language.

Bo Wang is a researcher in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. Yuanyi Ma is a researcher at the Faculty of Education, Vancouver Island University, Canada. Bo Wang and Yuanyi Ma are co-authors of Lao She's Teahouse and Its Two English Translations (2020), Systemic Functional Translation Studies (2021), Translating Tagore's Stray Birds into Chinese (2021), Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics (with Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen and Isaac N. Mwinlaaru, 2022) and Introducing M.A.K. Halliday (2022).

1. Contextualizing Chinese discourse 2. Classifying Chinese discourse 3. Analysing Chinese discourse: Perspectives from above 4. Analsying Chinese discourse: Perspectives from roundabout 5. analysing Chinese discourse: Perspectives from below 6. Conclusion: Towards a map of Chinese discourse