Based on Halliday’s systemic functional grammar, especially the ideational function, this research aims at disclosing hidden ideologies and values of seemingly objective news reports China’s COVID-19 policies in The Economist. Transitivity, voice, nominalization are major analytical subjects. After China lifted zero-COVID policy, western media began criticizing lack data sharing, with some misi...

Computat ional l inguistics needs grammars for several different tasks such as comprehension of text, machine translation, and text generation. 1 Clearly, any approach to grammar 2 has potential ly something to offer computat ional linguistics, say for parsing or text generation (and, by the same token, there is a potential benefit from an application within computational l inguistics for each ...

This paper provides a first introduction to some basic issues in sentence generation. It describes how systemic-functional grammars deal with the problems of sentence generation and gives a brief overview of the use of systemic-functional grammars in sentence generation research.

Density functional theory is applied to ion-induced nucleation of dipolar molecules. The predicted reversible work shows a sign preference, resulting in a difference in the nucleation rate by a factor of 10–10, for realistic values of model parameters. The sign effect is found to decrease systematically as the supersaturation is increased. The asymmetry of a molecule is shown to be directly res...

the field of elt is constantly witnessing the introduction of new instructional approaches: one such perhaps recent initiative is critical discourse analysis (cda). accordingly, the present study was an attempt to investigate the impact of cda instruction on iranian efl learners’ descriptive and argumentative writing ability. to fulfill the aforementioned purpose, a sample toefl was primarily p...

Linguistic theories can be divided into two varieties: those based on the form of linguistic expressions and those based on the function of linguistic expressions. Most presentday theories belong to the former variety. Because of their formal explicitness, the rule systems of these theories can be built into computer applications fairly straightforwardly, although they provide no indication of ...

Language is primarily a system that speakers use to make meaning. When there no available term refer new phenomenon or communicate an idea then their linguistic creativity create terms. This especially witnessed in the political arena during campaign period. Using multi-modal approach, this study analysed nonce formations were used as tool 2022 general elections Kenya. The purposively selected ...

This paper looks at how the verbs of science are displayed in the OALD and then compares them to a specialised corpus. The individual entries will be studied to see whether the scientific aspect is signalled, how the definitions are structured, and if implicit information is carried in the examples. The examples are analysed using Halliday’s Systemic and Functional Grammar (SFG). The results in...

Using the school badge of Xi’an Jiaotong University as an example, this article aims to unravel that both literal expression and visual imagery have the ideographic function. The analysis in this article primarily utilizes the theoretical framework of the visual communication grammar, which is developed by Kress & Van Leeuwen from Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics. By analyzing the rep...