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Introducing Functional Grammar, third edition, provides a user-friendly overview of the theoretical and practical aspects of the systemic functional grammar (SFG) model.

No prior knowledge of formal linguistics is required as the book provides:

An opening chapter on the purpose of linguistic analysis, which outlines the differences between the two major approaches to grammar - functional and formal.

An overview of the SFG model - what it is and how it works.

Advice and practice on identifying elements of language structure such as clauses and clause constituents.

Numerous examples of text analysis using the categories introduced, and discussion about what the analysis shows.

Exercises to test comprehension, along with answers for guidance.

The third edition is updated throughout, and is based closely on the fourth edition of Halliday and Matthiessen'sIntroduction to Functional Grammar. A glossary of terms, more exercises and an additional chapter are available on the product page at: https://www.routledge.com/9781444152678.

Introducing Functional Grammar remains the essential entry guide to Hallidayan functional grammar, for undergraduate and postgraduate students of language and linguistics.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: The purposes of linguistic analysis

Chapter 2: Recognizing clauses and clause constituents

Chapter 3: An overview of functional grammar

Chapter 4: Interacting: the interpersonal metafunction

Chapter 5: Representing the world: the experiential metafunction

Chapter 6: Organizing the message: the textual metafunction - theme

Chapter 7: Organizing the message: the textual metafunction - cohesion

Chapter 8: Clauses in combination

Chapter 9: Grammatical metaphor

Chapter 10: Implications and applications of functional grammar

Answers to exercises

Further reading

References

Index

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