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Engagement Resources in Chinese College Students’ Argumentative Writings

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Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) studies the ideational function, interpersonal function and textual function of language through lexicogrammar, and the clauses are treated as the carrier of “exchange,” “embodiment,” and “information.” Its research has reached both breadth and depth, but it overlooks the study on semantics of evaluation of interlocutors (Wang in Journal of Foreign Languages 6:13–20, 2001).

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Yang, Y. (2020). Engagement Resources in Chinese College Students’ Argumentative Writings. In: Yang, B., Li, W. (eds) Corpus-based Approaches to Grammar, Media and Health Discourses. The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4771-3_11

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