Discourse and Language Functions

Foreword
Huang Guowen and Wang Zongyan
1 Introduction to Halliday's “Comprting Meanings:Some Reflections on Past Expeience and Present Prospect”
2 Computing Meaings:Some Reflectons on Past Experience and Present Prospects M.A.K Halliday
3 The Role of Process and Nominalization in Grammatical Metaphor Hu Zhuanglin
4 Cleft Sentences as Grammatical Metaphors Huang Guowen
5 A Functional Interpretation of Causation
6 Indeterminacy in the Functional Analysis of Nonfinite Clauses Yang Bingjun
7 Theme and New in Written Advertising Peter H.ries
8 Textuality of Organisation of Madal Options in Text Peng Xuanwei
9 Theme in English and Chinese:A Contrative Study Chen Zhi'an and Kuang Lan
10 Lexicogrammar in Discourse Development;Logogenetic Patterns of Wording Christian M.I.M.Matthiessen
11 A Systemic-Functional Approach to Research Paper-Abstracts Yu Hui
12 Who Is to BIame:On Mood,Speech Function,and Interpersonal Relationship Fan Wenfang
13 Language Form, Discourse Structure and Language Function. A Brief Survey of the Plain Language Processing in Prospectuses Shang Yuanyuan
14 The Information Unit in a Phonological Perspective Chen Yongpei
15 Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Acts of the Whorfian Hypothesis Gao Yihong
16 Different Cultures, Different Speech Act Sets——Speech Act Theory and Its Implication to Intercultural Communication Studies Chen Jianping
17 Features of Argumentation in Chinese and English Texts Helena Y. K. Wong
18 Display Advertisements and Register Variation Doreen Dongying Wu
Appendix：M.A.K. Halliday: Computing Meanings: Some Reflections on Past Experience and Present Prospects (in Japanese)