Working With Functional Grammar

by Martin, J. R.; Matthiessen, Christian M. I. M.; Painter, Clare

• ISBN13: 9780340652503
• ISBN10: 0340652500
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-12-24
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers

Summary

Working with Functional Grammar is a workbook designed to teach and practice a wide range of grammatical analyses provided by M.A.K. Halliday in his Introduction to Functional Grammar . Halliday's influential work opened up the possibility of using grammar to explore how a text means what it does; this workbook will help students to understand Halliday's ideas and to apply them in the analysis of English texts.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(20)
Theme -- clause as message	21	(36)
Orientation	21	(1)
Survey of options	22	(6)
Troubleshooting	28	(9)
Picking out the units of analysis	28	(1)
Identifying the Theme	28	(1)
Identifying the metafunction	29	(2)
Subject it as unmarked topical Theme	31	(3)
There's a ... `existential clauses'	34	(1)
Recognizing longer Theme units	34	(2)
`Hypotactic' clause as Theme	36	(1)
Analysis practice	37	(16)
Phase I: exercises	37	(1)
Phase I: texts	38	(1)
Phase II: exercises	39	(4)
Phase II: texts	43	(4)
Phase III: exercises	47	(2)
Phase III: texts	49	(4)
Review and contextualization	53	(4)
Mood -- clause as exchange	57	(43)
Orientation	57	(4)
Survey of options	61	(9)
Troubleshooting	70	(7)
The unit of analysis	70	(1)
Identifying structural elements	71	(4)
Ambiguous mood type	75	(1)
Ambiguous Polarity	76	(1)
`Will': Tense or Modality	76	(1)
Analysis practice	77	(18)
Phase I: exercises	77	(4)
Phase I: texts	81	(2)
Phase II: exercises	83	(5)
Phase II: texts	88	(2)
Phase III: exercises	90	(2)
Phase III: texts	92	(3)
Review and contextualization	95	(5)
Transitivity -- clause as representation	100	(65)
Orientation	100	(2)
Survey of options	102	(12)
Troubleshooting	114	(17)
A topology of processes	114	(1)
General probes helpful in analysing for Transivity	115	(1)
One process or two?	116	(1)
Material clauses	117	(3)
Mental clauses	120	(2)
Relational clauses	122	(3)
Verbal clauses	125	(2)
Behavioural clauses	127	(1)
Discriminating circumstance type	127	(1)
Distinguishing between circumstances and other elements	127	(4)
Analysis practice	131	(26)
Phase I: exercises	131	(4)
Phase I: texts	135	(4)
Phase II: exercises	139	(7)
Phase II: texts	146	(3)
Phase III: exercises	149	(6)
Phase III: texts	155	(2)
Review and contextualization	157	(8)
The clause complex -- above the clause	165	(45)
Orientation	165	(2)
Survey of options	167	(6)
Troubleshooting	173	(17)
Procedure for analysis	173	(1)
Picking out the unit of analysis	174	(5)
Complexing versus embedding (downranked clauses)	179	(5)
Parataxis or hypotaxis	184	(1)
Identifying the logico-semantic relation	184	(3)
How many `layers' to the clause complex?	187	(1)
Implicit clause complex relations	188	(1)
Projection	188	(1)
`Surfacing' from an embedding	189	(1)
Analysis practice	190	(16)
Phase I: exercises	190	(4)
Phase I: texts	194	(3)
Phase II: exercises	197	(4)
Phase II: texts	201	(1)
Phase III: exercises	202	(2)
Phase III: texts	204	(2)
Review and contextualization	206	(4)
Key to Chapter 2: Theme	210	(16)
Phase I: exercises	210	(1)
Phase I: texts	211	(2)
Phase II: exercises	213	(2)
Phase II: texts	215	(3)
Phase III: exercises	218	(1)
Phase III: texts	219	(7)
Key to Chapter 3: Mood	226	(27)
Phase I: exercises	226	(3)
Phase I: texts	229	(2)
Phase II: exercises	231	(4)
Phase II: texts	235	(10)
Phase III: exercises	245	(2)
Phase III: texts	247	(6)
Key to Chapter 4: Transitivity	253	(31)
Phase I: exercises	253	(3)
Phase I: texts	256	(3)
Phase II: exercises	259	(6)
Phase II: texts	265	(7)
Phase III: exercises	272	(5)
Phase III: texts	277	(7)
Key to Chapter 5: The clause complex	284	(19)
Phase I: exercises	284	(4)
Phase I: texts	288	(2)
Phase II: exercises	290	(3)
Phase II: texts	293	(4)
Phase III: exercises	297	(2)
Phase III: texts	299	(4)
Index	303