许国璋高研院学术讲堂第二十五讲
Working with Halliday’s theory of language: personal reflection
主讲人：Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
Department of English, PolySystemic Research Group, Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
时间：2018年5月31日（周四）下午2:30
地点：北外东院图书馆四层学术报告厅
主办：北京外国语大学许国璋语言高等研究院
讲座内容：
M.A.K. Halliday has provided us with a powerful and an empowering theory of language in context: his Systemic Functional Linguistics is one approach to what he came to call appliable linguistics that is now being deployed and developed widely around the world. It is flourishing in the ecosystem of 21stcentury research — e.g. the emphasis on big data, on the study of complex adaptive systems, on the co-evolution of language and the brain and new techniques for studying neurological processes, on network science as a new emergent discipline; but also on trends such as the increasing emphasis on translational research and impactful studies. Here I will try to articulate what is truly unique about Halliday’s theory of language while at the same time foregrounding areas where there are now, two decades into the 21stcentury, increasing resonances across approaches to language. I will view Halliday’s theory of language from a personal point of view, having first engaged with it in the second half of the 1970s, and worked with Michael Halliday on a variety of projects since 1980, when I first met him.
讲座人简介：
Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen is Chair Professor of the Department of English, the Faculty of Humanities at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he is a member of the PolySystemic Research Group. He is Honorary Professor, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, the Australian National University, Canberra, and Guest Professor, University of Science and Technology, Beijing. His research has covered a wide range of areas, including analysis of many kinds of discourse, corpus compilation and corpus-based studies, register analysis and context-based text typology, the development of Rhetorical Structure Theory, the description of English and other languages spoken around the world, language typology and comparison, translation studies, multisemiotic studies, institutional linguistics, computational linguistics, the evolution of language, and systemic functional theory. Matthiessen’s books includeSystemic linguistics and text generation: experiences from Japanese and English, Lexicogrammatical cartography: English systems, Working with functional grammar, Construing experience: a language-based approach to cognition, Halliday’s Introduction to functional grammar, Functional typology, Continuing discourse on language, Systemic functional grammar: a first step into the theory, Key terms in systemic functional linguistics, Deploying functional grammar, The texture of casual conversation. A Guide to Systemic Functional Linguistics, The Architecture of Language according to Systemic Functional Linguistics(forthcoming), and 8 volumes of collected works (forthcoming).
