Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen is a leading scholar in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). ogether with William C. Mann and Sandra A. hompson, he developed Rhetorical Structure heory, a discourse analytical framework which ...

Systemic functional theory embodies a multilingual perspective to language from its earliest formulation. However, it was not until the last two decades that descriptions of languages other than English, particularly in ...

For the past half century, the versatile nature of demonstratives across languages has increasingly attracted attention in language typology. The present study contributes to this research agenda by examining the ...

This essay examines an instance of the use of folklore by writers in postcolonial African societies to problematize postcolonial systems in fiction. The essay discusses how Benjamin Kwakye exploits the trickster character ...