Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Overview
1.2 Theoretical Background and Methodological Framework
1.3 Significance of the Research
1.4 Outline of the Book
Chapter 2 Projection and Related Phenomena
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Direct and Indirect Speech
2.3 Intertextuality
2.4 Reporting Verb
2.5 The Systemic Functional Perspective
2.6 Summary
Chapter 3 Context and Registerial Variation
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Context
3.2.1 The Development of the Concept
3.2.2 The Hallidayan Notion of Context
3.2.3 Further Developments of the Hallidayan Context
3.3 Register and Registerial Variation
3.4 Summary
Chapter 4 The Projection Grammar of English
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Projection and the Orders of Reality
4.3 Projection as A Meaníng Making Resource
4.4 Projection Within the Matrix of Stratification and Instantiation
4.5 The Functions of Projection
4.5.1 The Ideational Function: Field
4.5.2 The Interpersonal Function: Tenor
4.6 Projection Seen as A Syndrome
4.7 Summary
Chapter 5 Research Design
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Why News Report and Academic Article
5.3 Research Questions
5.4 Data Sourcing
5.5 Analytical Framework
5.5.1 The lexicogrammatical and Logico-semantic Resources
5.5.2 The Contextual Values
5.6 Summary
Chapter 6 Results and Discussion I: Some Theoretical Reflections
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The Citing Resources: Some General Remarks
6.3 The Projection Power and the Scale of Projecting Resources
6.3.1 The Projection Power
6.3.2 The Scale of Projection
6.4 Projection Density
6.5 Summary
Chapter 7 Results and Discussion II: Variation in Projection Across Registers
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Projection Density: Variation Across Two Registers
