About the Book
Table of Contents:
Preface by Ruqaiya Hasan
On permeable contexts and hybrid discourses: preliminaries
Donna R. Miller and Paul Bayley
Grammatical hybridity
1. On the (non)necessity of the hybrid category behavioural Process
David Banks (Université de Bretagne Occidentale)
2. Hybridity in Transitivity: phraseological and metaphorically derived processes in the system network for transitivity
Gordon Tucker (Cardiff University)
3. Hybridity and Process Types
Jorge Arus Hita (Complutense University of Madrid)
Hybridity: implications for pedagogy and professional practice
4. Re-orienting semantic dispositions: the role of hybrid discourses
Caroline Coffin (The Open University)
5. Teaching through English: maximal input in meaning making
John Polias and Gail Forey (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
6. The multi-layeredness of hybridity in the written stylistic analysis argument
Anne Isaac (University of Canberra)
7. Hybridity types, role sets and professional practice Srikant Sarangi (Cardiff University)
Registerial – and/or Generic – hybridity
8. Hybridisation: how language users graft new discourses on old root stock
Geoff Thompson (University of Liverpool)
9. Registerial hybridity: indeterminacy among fields of activity
Christian Matthiessen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and Kazuhiro Teruya
10. Woolf’s Lecture/Novel/Essay ‘A Room of One’s Own’ Carol Taylor Torsello (University of Padua)
11. Genre and register hybridization in an historical text
Michael Cummings (York University, Canada)
12. Activation of lexico-grammatical choices by hybrid contexts: interpersonal uses of language in referee reports in linguistics and mathematics
Akila Sellami Baklouti
13. The permeable context of institutional and newspaper discourse: a corpus-based functional case study of the European sovereign debt crisis
Sabrina Fusari (University of Bologna)
About the Author :
Donna R. Miller holds the Chair of English Linguistics at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Bologna, where she heads the Research Centre for Linguistic-Cultural Studies (CeSLiC). Her research has focused on register analysis in institutional text types, her corpus-assisted investigations exploring the grammar of evaluation in terms of APPRAISAL SYSTEMS. Recently she has been investigating the Hasanian model of 'verbal art'. She is co-author of Language and Verbal Art Revisited (with Monica Turci, Equinox Publishing, 2007).Paul Bayley is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna. He is head of teaching and learning activities at the Bologna University Language Centre. He is co-editor of European Identity: What the Media Say (with Geoffrey Williams, OUP, 2012) and Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies on the Iraq Conflict (with John Morley, Routledge, 2009).
Review :
This volume unites a diversity of reflections on the nature and effects of hybridity, a theoretical concept covering a range of discourse phenomena from the merging of functions within the clause to the re-articulation of social signifiers within public and institutional discourse. Taken together, the contributions demonstrate the essential permeability and coevolution of language and social life at all levels, with hybridity as the dynamic driving force. This volume persuasively demonstrates how the extravagant architecture of Systemic Functional Linguistics provides a theoretical perspective well-suited to the analysis of this complex concept and, in doing so, significantly enriches the theory itself.
Tom Bartlett, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University, author of Hybrid Voices and Collaborative Change: Contextualising Positive Discourse Analysis
Overall, this book provides a comprehensive and insightful framework for the analysis of hybridity within SFL and will be an excellent reference for researchers working on SFL, hybridity, discourse analysis, stylistics or language teaching.
Australian Journal of Linguistics
Hybridity in Systemic Functional Linguistics is of great value for the following four reasons. Firstly, it covers various categories of hybridity-grammar, text and context, and provides a comparatively systematic study of hybridity from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics, thus refuting Norman Fairclough’s statement that SFL cannot have anything valid to say about hybridity since it lacks a system corresponding to the ‘order of discourse’. Secondly, the volume is characterized by interdisciplinary study, which is not only testified by the interface between SFL and cognitive linguistics, and the synergy between SFL and CL, but is also proved by the selection of corpora from different areas, like linguistics, mathematics, and literature. Moreover, since many contributors have exemplified the status of SFL as an appliable linguistics (e.g. Caroline on the applicability of SFL in dealing with university learning, Cummings on a historical text, and Sabrina on institutional and newspaper discourse), it is believed that the appliability of SFL should be one of its future directions. Last but not least, each chapter is well organized with clear logic and structure, which makes the book easy to follow and accessible to readers.
The book is much to be recommended to any student, lecturer, or researcher interested in hybridity.
LinguistList
Overall, the volume adds to readers’ vectors for appreciating and investigating those linguistic phenomena that may be labeled as exhibiting fuzziness, indeterminacy, intersection, agnation or features subject to double coding, no matter whether the issue of hybridity or permeability emerges at the stratum of lexicogrammar, semantic discourse or context. This suffices to guarantee, in my view, that the volume will be welcomed by scholars and researchers interested in functional grammar, discourse analysis, genre
analysis and the semogenesis of social semiotic resources.
Discourse Studies
The volume offers much to language teachers, discourse analysts and language theorists, with the main strength of the volume being the inclusion of a rich array of highly instructive and engaging exemplar texts, situations and analytical approaches and a clear demonstration that SFL indeed has much to say about hybridity in discourse.
Discourse & Society
A very valuable monograph on systemic functional linguistics. It is just like a beautiful chorus, meeting the needs of the development of the era. Not only does it prove the systematic nature of hybridity research in systemic functional linguistics, but it also refutes the idea that systemic functional linguistics lacks an adequate cognitive element (Miller & Bayley 2016: 4). All in all, it deserves to be carefully read by scholars who are committed to the study of systemic functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics, pedagogy, second language
acquisition, professional practice, discourse analysis and stylistic analysis.
The Journal of Foreign Languages
This volume from some of the most significant writers in Systemic Functional Linguistics.... is a very timely addition to the literature and one that may well act as a catalyst in moving SFL further along the trajectory from its current emphasis on the description of norms to a consideration of the ragged edges of language as a social semiotic and what these tell us about language as a dynamic system and the relevance of this for social change.
Functions of Language
