Introducing Functional Grammar

by Thompson; Geoff

• ISBN13: 9780340807163
• ISBN10: 0340807164
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-06-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book provides students with an accessible introduction to Hallidayan functional grammar and prepares them to use Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar (IFG) later on in their studies. In this updated edition, Thompson focuses on changes in two main areas: corpus data and systemnetworks.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
The purposes of linguistic analysis	1	(13)
Starting points	1	(9)
Going in through form	2	(4)
Going in through meaning	6	(4)
Language, context and function: a preliminary exploration	10	(4)
Exercise	12	(2)
Recognizing clauses and clause constituents	14	(14)
Breaking up the sentence -- and labelling the parts	14	(7)
Recognizing constituents	15	(3)
Structural and functional labels	18	(3)
Ranks	21	(7)
Exercises	26	(2)
An overview of functional grammar	28	(17)
Three kinds of meaning	28	(11)
The three metafunctions	30	(2)
Three kinds of function in the clause	32	(2)
Three kinds of structure in the clause	34	(1)
Showing the options: systems networks	35	(3)
A fourth metafunction	38	(1)
Register and genre	39	(6)
Register (and the corpus)	40	(2)
Genre	42	(2)
Exercise	44	(1)
Interacting: the interpersonal metafunction	45	(41)
Introduction	45	(1)
Roles of addressers and audience	46	(3)
Mood	49	(16)
The structure of the Mood	49	(1)
Identifying Subject and Finite	50	(2)
Meanings of Subject and Finite	52	(2)
Mood in non-declarative clauses	54	(4)
Mood in text	58	(2)
The Residue	60	(3)
Modal Adjuncts	63	(2)
Modality	65	(10)
Modality and polarity	65	(2)
Types of modality	67	(2)
Modal commitment	69	(1)
Modal responsibility	69	(3)
Modality in text	72	(3)
Appraisal	75	(4)
Interaction and negotiation	79	(1)
Interaction through text	80	(6)
Exercises	83	(3)
Representing the world: the experiential metafunction	86	(55)
Introduction	86	(2)
Transitivity: processes and participants	88	(28)
Material processes	90	(2)
Mental processes	92	(4)
Relational processes	96	(4)
Verbal processes	100	(3)
Other types of process	103	(2)
Other participant roles	105	(4)
Circumstances	109	(3)
Transitivity in text	112	(4)
More complex aspects of transitivity	116	(10)
More on material processes	116	(1)
More on mental processes	117	(1)
More on relational processes	118	(6)
Processes in verbal group complexes	124	(1)
Participants in causation	125	(1)
Transitivity patterns in text	126	(9)
Ergativity	135	(6)
Exercises	138	(3)
Organizing the message: the textual metafunction -- Theme	141	(38)
Introduction	141	(1)
Theme	142	(2)
Identifying Theme	144	(5)
Theme in declarative clauses	144	(2)
Theme in non-declarative clauses	146	(3)
Special thematic structures	149	(5)
Thematic equatives	149	(2)
Predicated Theme	151	(1)
Thematized comment	152	(1)
Preposed Theme	153	(1)
Passive clauses and Theme	153	(1)
Theme in clause complexes	154	(2)
Multiple Theme	156	(4)
Conjunctions in Theme	157	(1)
Conjunctive and modal Adjuncts in Theme	157	(1)
Textual, interpersonal and experiential elements in Theme	158	(2)
Interrogatives as multiple Themes	160	(1)
Some problems in Theme analysis	160	(4)
Existential `there' in Theme	161	(1)
Theme in reported clauses	161	(1)
Interpolations in Theme	162	(1)
Preposed attributives	163	(1)
Theme in text	164	(9)
A final note on identifying Theme	173	(6)
Exercises	174	(5)
Organizing the message: the textual metafunction -- cohesion	179	(16)
Cohesion and coherence	179	(1)
Reference and ellipsis	180	(8)
Reference	180	(4)
Ellipsis	184	(4)
Conjunction	188	(2)
Cohesion in text	190	(5)
Exercise	194	(1)
Clauses in combination	195	(24)
Introduction	195	(1)
Units of analysis	196	(1)
Types of relations between clauses	197	(7)
Logical dependency relations	198	(5)
Logico-semantic relations	203	(1)
Expansion	204	(5)
Elaborating	204	(2)
Extending	206	(1)
Enhancing	207	(2)
Projection	209	(10)
Quotes and reports	210	(3)
Facts	213	(2)
Projection in text	215	(1)
Exercises	216	(3)
Grammatical metaphor	219	(21)
Introduction	219	(1)
Grammatical metaphor	220	(4)
Experiential and logical metaphors	224	(7)
Interpersonal metaphors	231	(4)
Textual metaphor	235	(1)
A cautionary note	236	(4)
Exercises	237	(3)
Implications and applications of functional grammar	240	(13)
Three-dimensional analysis of texts	240	(7)
A summary review of functional grammar	247	(2)
Using functional grammar	249	(2)
Closing	251	(2)
Answers to exercises	253	(30)
Further reading	283	(5)
References	288	(5)
Index	293