Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar

M.A.K. Halliday, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Michael Halliday

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Routledge
10 July 2013

linguistics; Grammar, syntax

Fully updated and revised, this fourth edition of Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar explains the principles of systemic functional grammar, enabling the reader to understand and apply them in any context. Halliday's innovative approach of engaging with grammar through discourse has become a worldwide phenomenon in linguistics.

Updates to the new edition include:

Recent uses of systemic functional linguistics to provide further guidance for students, scholars and researchers More on the ecology of grammar, illustrating how each major system serves to realise a semantic system A systematic indexing and classification of examples More from corpora, thus allowing for easy access to data

Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar, Fourth Edition, is the standard reference text for systemic functional linguistics and an ideal introduction for students and scholars interested in the relation between grammar, meaning and discourse.

By: M.A.K. Halliday, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Michael Halliday
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 4th New edition
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm, Spine: 46mm
Weight: 1.412kg
ISBN: 9781444146608
ISBN 10: 1444146602
Pages: 790
Publication Date: 10 July 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface PART I: THE CLAUSE Chapter 1: The architecture of language Chapter 2: Towards a functional grammar Chapter 3: Clause as message Chapter 4: Clause as exchange Chapter 5: Clause as representation PART II: ABOVE, BELOW AND BEYOND THE CLAUSE Chapter 6: Below the clause: groups and phases Chapter 7: Above the clause: the clause complex Chapter 8: Group and phrase complexes Chapter 9: Around the clause: cohesion and discourse Chapter 10: Beyond the clause: metaphorical modes of expression References Index

M.A.K. HALLIDAY is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. CHRISTIAN M.I.M. MATTHIESSEN is Chair Professor of the Department of English in the Faculty of Humanities at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Reviews for Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar

...an invaluable presentation of, and rationale for, the central descriptive apparatus of Halliday's systemic-functional grammar of English...essential reading for all students of English textual structure, teeming with insights. -- Michael Toolan, University of Birmingham, UK Anyone who claims any interst in practical grammar and its relationship to theoretical grammar should certainly familiarise themselves with it. -- Studies in Second Language Acquisition