1 Introduction to Halliday's "Computing Meanings:Some Reflections on Past Experience and Present Prospects"&Christian M.I.M.Matthiessen 1
2 Computing Meanings:Some Reflections on Past Experience and Present Prospects&M.A.K.Halliday 3
3 The Role of Process and Nominalization in Grammatical Metaphor&Hu Zhuanglin 26
4 Cleft Sentences as Grammatical Metaphors&Huang Guowen 34
5 A Functional Interpretation of Causation&Yang Xinzhang 42
6 Indeterminacy in the Functional Analysis of Nonfinite Clauses&Yang Bingjun 50
7 Theme and New in Written Advertising&Peter H.Fries 56
8 Textuality of Organisation of Modal Options in Text&Peng Xuanwei 73
9 Theme in English and Chinese:A Contrastive Study&Chen Zhi'an and Kuang Lan 81
10 Lexicogrammar in Discourse Development:Logogenetic Patterns of Wording&Christian M.I.M.Matthiessen 91
11 A Systemic-Functional Approach to Research Paper Abstracts&Yu Hui 128
12 Who Is to Blame:On Mood,Speech Function,and Interpersonal Relationship&Fan Wenfang 138
13 Language Form,Discourse Structure and Language Function——A Brief Survey of the Plain Language Processing in Prospectuses&Shang Yuanyuan 146
14 The Information Unit in a Phonological Perspective&Chen Yongpei 155
15 Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Acts of the Whorfian Hypothesis&Gao Yihong 164
16 Different Cultures,Different Speech Act Sets——Speech Act Theory and Its Implication to Intercultural Communication Studies&Chen Jianping 175
17 Features of Argumentation in Chinese and English Texts&Helena Y.K.Wong 185
18 Display Advertisements and Register Variation&Doreen Dongying Wu 202
Appendix:M.A.K.Halliday:Computing Meanings:Some Reflections on Past Experience and Present Prospects(in Japanese) 213