Introduction 1
Part One Theoretic Linguistic Studies 5
An Exploration into Conceptions of Category in Ancient Chinese Philosophy&Zhong Yang 6
Measure Nominals in English and Chinese from the Perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics&Bingjun Yang 16
Reconsidering Evidentiality from a Systemic Functional Perspective&Liangtao Lai 31
Conceptual and Connotative Meaning of Body Parts：Examples from Jordanian Arabic&Mohammad Al-Khawalda and Lina Al-Mawajdeh 48
SOV Word Order and Complex Syllable Structure in Pashto：A Proof of Negation&Muhammad Kamal Khan 61
Russell's Paradox and the Logic of Language&Aizhen Zhang and Weizhen Chen 72
Part Two Educational Linguistic Studies 83
Exploring Content：Building Knowledge in School Discourse&J.R.Martin 84
On the Formative Mechanisms of Semantic Waves&Yongsheng Zhu 113
An Analysis of the Redistribution of Literacy Resources：Motivation and Efficiency&Bin Tang 127
A Functional Approach to Content Literacy in a TESOL Teacher Training Program&Wei Zhang 143
Longitudinal Changes in Use of Engagement in University History Writing：A Case Study&Thomas D.Mitchell,Ryan T.Miller and Silvia Pessoa 153
Would“pinyinising”English Help Chinese Students Speak English Better？&Michael Youles 164
Part Three Social Linguistic Studies 173
English as a Global Lingua Franca：A Threat to Multilingualism and Translation？&Juliane House 174
The Self-representation of Old-generation Chinese Migrant Workers&Qingye Tang 185
Discursive Construction of National Identity in Chinese and Canadian Press—A Case Study of CNOOC's Takeover of Nexen&Jinjun Wang 200
Gender Construction in Pakistani Children's Literature：An Analysis of Taleem-O-Tarbiyat&Ambreen Shahnaz,Samina Amin Qadir and Farah Riaz 213
Image-text Discourse：An Intermodal Perspective on the Construction of Institutional Identity&Jing Xu 229
Part Four Translation and Computational Linguistic Studies 249
Nominalization and Pinyin in Chinese-to-English Translation&Tangiin Xiao 250
A Transitivity Analysis of Manipulation in Howard Goldblatt's Translation of Red Sorghum&Chengyu Liu and Xu Zhang 260
Chinese Grammar Engineering：A Case Study of Mandarin Grammar Online&Chunlei Yang and Dan Flickinger 275