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Hallidayan linguistics in China
Author(s) -
Huang Guowen
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
world englishes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.6
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-971X
pISSN - 0883-2919
DOI - 10.1111/1467-971x.00248
Subject(s) - applied linguistics , linguistics , popularity , contrastive linguistics , quantitative linguistics , china , media linguistics , sociocultural linguistics , clinical linguistics , systemic functional linguistics , historical linguistics , sociology , ethnolinguistics , cognitive linguistics , political science , psychology , philosophy , law , cognition , neuroscience
Hallidayan linguistics has gained an important and influential position among linguistic approaches to the study of the English and Chinese languages in The People’s Republic of China. This paper surveys the developmental stages and the current research environment for Systemic Functional Linguistics in contemporary China, and presents a considered and detailed explanation of the popularity of Hallidayan linguistics amongst contemporary Chinese scholars.