Hybridity in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Grammar, Text and Discursive Context - Hardcover

..".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." --Enhua Guo and Delu Zhang, Australian Journal of Linguistics, 2017 ..".Donna R. Miller and Paul Bayley must be congratulated on their impressive editorial work. The book is much to be recommended to any student, lecturer, or researcher interested in hybridity." --Ruby Rong Wei, LINGUIST List Vol. 28.1389 "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 or 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 semogensis of social semiotic resources." --Wenchao Zhao Discourse Studies 19(5) "[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." --Wendy L. Bowcher, Sun Yat-sen University, Discourse and Society ..".Taken as a whole, the volume is still a very valuable monograph on systemic functional linguistics. It is just like a beautiful chorus, meeting the needs of the development of the area. [...]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." --Wei Rong, The Journal of Foreign Languages Vol. 41 No. 1

The term 'hybridity' has been around for a long time and, for most of its history of use, has been pressed into the most disparate - and often dubious - services. In recent times it has become a sort of transdisciplinary 'buzz word' and it was about time that Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) also raised its voice on the subject. This volume addresses the increasingly typical hybrid nature of text and discourse. In an SFL perspective, this also means that cultural and situational contexts must be seen as being always potentially hybrid or, as Hasan has fittingly put it, 'permeable', such permeability being based on the powerful activation/construal dialectic between discursive situation and language, system and instance. The authors of the papers in this collection variously focus on hybridity within sociocultural contexts in which discourse occurs, investigate hybridity of discourse types (in a wide range of genres, registers, text-types, etc.), but also examine hybridity within the stratum of lexicogrammar itself. Moreover, the implications of hybridity for education and the professions are explored.The volume makes plain the multifaceted complexity of the phenomenon, as well as its rich potential as a theoretical construct in SFL