Introducing functional grammar

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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." --Publisher description.

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Full title :Introducing functional grammar / Geoff Thompson.

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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." --Publisher description.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.
Edition:Third edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):New York, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 313 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

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ISBN:9780415826303, 0415826306, 9781444152678, 144415267X
oclc:ocn812256110
LC Classification:P147
Dewey Decimal:415

1. The purposes of linguistic analysis -- 1.1 Starting points -- 1.2 Language, context and function: a preliminary exploration -- 2. Identifying clauses and clause constituents -- 2.1 Breaking up the sentence and labelling the parts -- 2.2 Ranks -- 3. An overview of Functional Grammar -- 3.1 Three kinds of meaning -- 3.2 Register and genre -- 4. Interacting: the interpersonal metafunction -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Roles of addressers and audience -- 4.3 Mood -- 4.4 Modality -- 4.5 Appraisal -- 4.6 Interaction and negotiation -- 4.7 Interaction through text -- 5. Representing the world: the experiential metafunction -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Transitivity: processes and participants -- 5.3 More complex aspects of transitivity -- 5.4 Transitivity patterns in text -- 5.5 Ergativity -- 6. Organizing the message: the textual metafunction -- Theme -- 6.1 Introduction: making messages fit together -- 6.2 Theme -- 6.3 Identifying Theme -- 6.6 Multiple Theme -- 6.7 Some issues in Theme analysis -- 6.8 Theme in text -- 6.9 A final note on identifying Theme -- 7. Clauses in combination -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Units of analysis -- 7.3 Types of relations between clauses -- 7.4 Expansion --…