A corpus-supported approach to textual metafunction
Liu Jian-pen · Waiyu jiaoxue lilun yu shijian · 2014
The corpus-supported approach to SFG( systemic functional grammar) is a new perspective of linguistics research,in which theoretical research and exploration are based on concordance and semi-automatic annotation. It is both theory-attestable and corpus-driven. A corpus-supported approach to textual metafunction is to model the cohesion system of textual meta-function into lexical strings and regular expressions that can be automatically retrieved; then the thesauri and regular expressions for different cohesive meaning serve as retrieved items for concordance,which are complemented with contextual wordlist( s) if necessary; the research finally aims at establishing the meaning probability profile of textual metafunction through observing and reasoning on the retrieved lines.