中山大學 SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY Huang(2000): spread and development of sFl in 5 China a There are many reasons why slf has been developing E rapidly in China, and one of the most important factors 4 is its practicality and appliabili D. because SFL emphasizes studying language in use and it is a theory particularly suitable for discourse analySIS Appliability: one of the attractions of the theory ∽cz,zcz◼ Huang (2000): spread and development of SFL in China  There are many reasons why SLF has been developing rapidly in China, and one of the most important factors is its practicality and appliability.  …because SFL emphasizes studying language in use… and it is a theory particularly suitable for discourse analysis… ◼ Appliability: one of the attractions of the theory