This edited volume gathers corpus-based studies on topics including English grammar and discourses on media and health, mainly from a systemic functional linguistics (SFL) perspective, in order to reveal the potential of SFL, which has been emphasized by Halliday.

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Part I: Grammar.- Chapter 2 A corpus-based study of transfers in English gerunds.- Chapter 3 Corpus linguistics as contextual prosodic theory (CPT) and subtext: A new and final linguistic theory.- Chapter 4 Idiomaticity in intercultural communication in English as lingua franca: A corpus-based study of verb-object combinations.- Part II: Media discourse: Political and academic.- Chapter 5 Participating and expressing attitudes in new media: A case study of comments on president Xi Jinping’s speech at UN.- Chapter 6 Register variation in Hellenistic Greek: Factor analysis of quantitative linguistic patterns.- Chapter 7 Synergising corpus, functional, and cultural approaches to critical discourse studies: A case study of the discursive representation of Chinese Dream.- Chapter 8 The discourse of Nkrumaism: A corpus-informed study.- Chapter 9 Concordancing China’s friend, foe and frenemy: A corpus-based CDA analysis of geopolitical actors (re)presented at China’s interpreter-mediated political press conferences.- Chapter 10 Citation functions in the opening phase of research articles: A corpus-based comparative study.- Chapter 11 Engagement resources in Chinese college students’ argumentative writings.- Chapter 12 Interpreter’s role in discourse and context: A corpus-based study from an SFL perspective.- Part III: Health discourse.- Chapter 13 A study of intersubjective representations of inferential information in health crisis news reporting.- Chapter 14 Creativity and television drama: A t-score and MI value cut-offs analysis of pattern-forming Creativity in House M.D..- Chapter 15 Interpersonal metaphor used in different discursive moves in reply posts of an online health forum.

This edited volume gathers corpus-based studies on topics including English grammar and discourses on media and health, mainly from a systemic functional linguistics (SFL) perspective, in order to reveal the potential of SFL, which has been emphasized by Halliday. Various other perspectives, such as philosophy, statistics, genre studies, etc. are also included to promote SFL’s potential interaction with other theories. Though they employ a diverse range of theoretical perspectives, all the chapters focus on exploring language in use with the corpus method. The studies collected here are all original, unpublished research articles that address significant questions, deepen readers’ understanding of SFL, and promote its potential interaction with other theories. In addition, they demonstrate the great potential that SFL holds for solving language-related questions in a variety of discourses.

Highlights the potential of SFL in bringing together corpus-based studies on English grammar and discourses on media and health Promotes SFL’s interaction with other theories and methods such as philosophy, genre studies, statistics, and corpus linguistics Helps researchers and postgraduate students in SFL/corpus linguistics understand how SFL can be combined with corpus linguistics to study grammar and various discourses