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9780340625354

Introducing Functional Grammar

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  • ISBN13:

    9780340625354

  • ISBN10:

    034062535X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-09-27
  • Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
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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 system networks.

Author Biography

Geoff Thompson is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Liverpool.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
The purpose of linguistic analysisp. 1
Identifying clauses and clause constituentsp. 13
An overview of Functional Grammarp. 26
Interaction in the clause: the interpersonal metafunctionp. 38
Representing the world: the experiential metafunctionp. 76
Organising the message: the textual metafunction: Themep. 117
Organising the message: the textual metafunction: cohesionp. 147
Grammatical metaphorp. 163
Groups and phrasesp. 179
Clauses in combinationp. 194
Implications and applications of Functional Grammarp. 214
Answers to exercisesp. 225
Further Readingp. 250
Referencesp. 254
Indexp. 257
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