Chapter One Introduction 1.1 Background of the Study 1.2 Purpose of the Study 1.3 Significance of the Study 1.4 Layout of the Study Chapter Two Literature Review 2.1 Halliday's Works Related and Other Views on Corpora 2.1.1 Frequency, Probability and Quantitative Methods 2.1.2 Probability and Corpora in SFG 2.1.3 Applications of Corpora to SFG 2.2 SFG and a Corpus Approach 2.2.1 SFG 2.2.2 A Corpus Approach to SFG 2.3 Questions to Be Answered Chapter Three Commonalities and Disparities Between SFG and CL 3.1 Commonalities Between SFG and CL 3.1.1 Philosophical Basis 3.1.2 Meaning and Its Representation 3.1.3 Systemic Probability of Language 3.2 Disparities Between SFG and CL 3.2.1 Theory and Methodology 3.2.2 Meaning 3.2.3 Context 3.3 Synergies and Complementarities Between SFG and CL 3.4 Summary Chapter Four A Corpus-Supported Approach to SFG 4.1 Reasons for a New Approach 4.2 Proposal for Corpus-Supported SFG 4.2.1 Proposal for a Corpus-Supported Approach to SFG 4.2.2 Proper Annotation and Its Theoretical Basis 4.2.3 Vertical Probability Profile Established from the Horizontal Frequency of Collocation 4.3 At-testable and Empirical Nature of A Corpus-Supported Approach to SFG 4.4 Summary Chapter Five A Corpus-Supported Approach to Constituents and Their Patterns Within Figures 5.1 Theoretical Modeling for Concordance of Constituents and Their Patterns Within Figures 5.2 Application of Theoretical Modeling to Concordance of Constituents and Their Patterns Within Figures 5.3 Summary Chapter Six A Corpus-Supported Approach to the Ideational Metafunction 6.1 Theoretical Modeling for Annotating the Ideational Metafunction of Constituents 6.2 Annotating the Ideational Metafunction in the Constituents of Clauses from the Perspective of the Automatic Process 6.3 Summary Chapter Seven A Corpus-Supported Approach to the Textual Metafunction 7.1 A Corpus Approach to the Cohesion System in SFG 7.2 Cohesion Research by the Corpus-Supported Approach to SFG 7.2.1 ACorpus-Supportad Approach to the Lexical Cohesion Systan 7.2.2 A Corpus-Supported Approach to the Grammatical Cohesion System 7.3 Summary
Chapter Eight Conclusions 8.1 Summary of the Findings 8.2 Further Research to Be Explored Bibliography Index
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