 Posted - 27/03/2001 : 12:32:55
Seminar Series organized by Professor M A K Halliday,
Visiting Professor, Department of Chinese, Translation & Linguistics,
City University of Hong Kong
Sponsored by
Department of Chinese, Translation & Linguistics,
Department of English & Communication, and
Institute of Chinese Linguistics
Time: Every Thursday 4:30 pm 6:00 pm
Venue: See below
Series 1: Sketch of current systemic functional linguistics
Mar 29, 2001
Functional theories of language; general architecture of systemic functional linguistics; stratification, instantiation, metafunction; perspectives and complementarities
Apr 12, 2001
The concept of a semiotic system; language and other modalities; systemic and structural representations; system networks in grammar and other contexts
Apr 19, 2001
Co-evolution and co-development of language and the brain; meaning and moving; language development from birth to adulthood; grammaticalization and grammatical metaphor
Apr 26, 2001
Theory as problem-solving activity; some domains of application language teaching and education, literature and discourse analysis, natural language processing and intelligent computing, sociolinguistics and semantic variation
May 3, 2001
Quantitative studies of language; the probabilistic nature of linguistic systems; significance of the corpus; handling the complexity of language
Series 2: Topics in the comparative study of Chinese and English
May 10, 2001
The concept of an international language , with special reference to Chinese, English and Japanese
May 17, 2001
Systems and grammaticalization in Chinese and English; metafunctional analysis of issues such as Subject and Theme
May 24, 2001
Scientific discourse and grammatical metaphor in Chinese and English; some questions of translation
Venue: FHS Conference Room (G7619), Academic Building, CityU
May 31, 2001
Mandarin phonology: a systemic approach
Venue: Multi-Media Conference Room, 4th Floor, Cheng Yick-chi Building, CityU
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