@@ Systemic functional linguistics has a great currency in Chinese scholarship, due to the efforts of many direct and indirect students of Michael A.K.Halliday in China.I am therefore very honored to be asked by some of these colleagues to talk about systemic functional literary stylistics and to say something about my own work within it.You can find the names of many of these distinguished Chinese systemic linguists in the article by Huang Guowen, "Hallidayan linguistics in China" (2002) , and in the article by Zhang Delu, Edward McDonald, Fang Yan & Huang Guowen, "The development of systemic functional linguistics in China" (2005).Today I want expressly to thank Professor Liu Shisheng of Tsinghua University for his very kind invitation, and Professor Hu Zhuanglin of Peking University for his many years of friendship and support.I also want to thank Liu Nannan and Professor Fang Yan, both of Tsinghua University, the first for her great help in preparing this occasion, and the second for the preparations she is making for the36th Annual International Systemic Functional Congress , to be held here in 2009.My talk today has four parts: 1. systemic functional linguistic descnption illustrated by an English poem; 2. systemic functional linguistic description illustrated by English literary prose; 3. recent important readings in systemic functional literary stylistics; 4.some recent research of my own into the stylistics of systemic functional Theme and Rheme.
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