The paper presents an approach to utterance planning, which can dynamically use context information about the environment in which a dialogue is situated. The approach is functional in nature, using systemic networks to specify its planning grammar. The planner takes a description of a communicative goal as input, and produces one or more logical forms that can express that goal in a contextual...

Abstract This article is a summary of the newly published book New Developments Ecological Discourse Analysis . On premise reviewing overall development ecolinguistics, this firstly develops Hallidayan approach and defines as an independent paradigm. Based on guiding principle ecosophy, “Diversity Harmony, Interaction Co-existence”, it then expands extends experiential, interpersonal, textual, ...

Interpersonal metaphor, as one constituent of grammatical metaphor in systemic-functional grammar, is mainly represented by mood and modality. The language the movie Carnage abound with interpersonal metaphors diverse context “communication” “conflict” respectively. By summarizing application two types specific contexts “conflict”, int...

Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics, this article explores affiliative moves in verbal-pictorial posts from a Facebook group, investigating how different semiotic regions of post operate individuation processes. After locating the study terms stratification and instantiation, we present sociosemiotic dimension Grammar Visual Design; then, discuss model decomposition employed; finally, an...

This paper exarnines the properties of featureba~sed partial descriptions built on top of tlalliday's systemic networks. We show that the crucial operation of consistency checking for such descriptions is NP-complete, and therefore probably intractable, but proceed to develop algorithms which can sometimes alleviate the unpleasant consequence s of this intractability. 1 I n t r o d u c t i o n ...

Although systemic grammars are represented declaratively (as system networks), the most important implementations to date have been committed to the generation direction , and seem more or less incomprehensible for the researcher not familiar with systemic descriptions and software. The aim of this paper is, therefore, to re-represent systemic grammar resources in a standard typed feature logic...

Film discourse is a typical of multimodal discourse which contains many semiotic modalities such as image, text, sound and music. Multimodal discourse analysis (MDA) focuses on how meaning is made through the use of multiple modes of communication as opposed to just language. The MDA assisted film discourse analysis helps understand films through the interaction among different modalities as we...

The Sight of Father’s Back is a well-known prose work Zhu Ziqing, famous modern essayist and poet in China. structure the article exquisite, simple concise, has high literary aesthetic value. This paper based on Halliday's systemic functional grammar theory utilizes core semantic system conceptual function-the transitivity system, to analyze Mr. Zhang Peiji's translation Back. main focus compar...

This article presents a proposal for the organization of the Contextual Component in Functional Discourse Grammar. A guiding principle in this proposal is that, given the fact that Functional Discourse Grammar is a theory of grammar, the Contextual Component should provide the information that is necessary for a proper functioning of the grammar rather than aim at an exhaustive specification of...