Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar

Author: M.A.K. Halliday
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135983410
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 808

Book Description
Fully updated and revised, this fourth edition of Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar explains the principles of systemic functional grammar, enabling the reader to understand and apply them in any context. Halliday's innovative approach of engaging with grammar through discourse has become a worldwide phenomenon in linguistics. Updates to the new edition include: Recent uses of systemic functional linguistics to provide further guidance for students, scholars and researchers More on the ecology of grammar, illustrating how each major system serves to realise a semantic system A systematic indexing and classification of examples More from corpora, thus allowing for easy access to data Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar, Fourth Edition, is the standard reference text for systemic functional linguistics and an ideal introduction for students and scholars interested in the relation between grammar, meaning and discourse.

An Introduction to Functional Grammar

Author: M.A.K. Halliday
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113465653X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 816

Book Description
This third edition of An Introduction to Functional Grammar has been extensively revised. While retaining the organization and coverage of the earlier editions, it incorporates a considerable amount of new material.

An Introduction to Functional Grammar

Author: Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday
Publisher: Edward Arnold
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 442

Book Description

Introducing Functional Grammar

Author: Geoff Thompson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135983208
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
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's Introduction 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.

Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics

Author: Suzanne Eggins
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826457868
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
Introduction to systemic functional linguistics explores the social semiotic approach to language most closely associated with the work of Michael Halliday and his colleagues>

An Introduction to Functional Grammar

Author: Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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A Systemic Functional Grammar of English

Author: David Banks
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429885849
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Providing a simple – but not simplistic – introduction to the Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) of English, this book serves as a launching pad for the beginning student and a review for the more seasoned linguist. With an introduction to SFG through lexicogrammar and the concept of rankshift, this book is the first introduction to SFG (including Appraisal) with examples exclusively sourced from twenty-first century texts. Written for those learning English and English linguistics as a foreign language, this serves as an easy-to-read introduction or refresher course for Systemic Functional Linguistics.

English Tense and Aspect in Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar

Author: Carl Bache
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
This book is aimed at fellow practitioners and researchers in functional linguistics. It offers a friendly but critical appraisal of a major component of the 'standard' version of SFL, i.e. the account given by Halliday and Matthiessen of tense and aspect in English. Supporting his criticisms with evidence from a project in corpus linguistics, Bache suggests that this account fails in several ways to satisfy accepted functionalist criteria, and hence needs revising and extending. After surveying alternative functionalist approaches to modelling time and tense in English (including Fawcett's Cardiff school approach and Harder's instructional-semantic approach), and after presenting a number of principles of category description, Bache goes on to offer an alternative SFL account of this area of grammar. In Bache's model, the focus is on the speaker's communicative motivation for choosing particular verb forms. The relevant choice relations are seen to draw on metafunctionally diverse resources, such as tense, action, aspect and other domains. The basically univariate, serial structure of the verbal group is accordingly enriched with certain characteristics associated with multivariate structures, and the idea of recursion is abandoned. Bache finally examines the descriptive potential of his model in connection with projection, conditions, and narration.

Lexical-Functional Grammar

Author: Kersti Börjars
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107170567
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 231

Book Description
A step-by-step introduction to lexical-functional grammar, using data from English and a range of typologically diverse languages.

A Theory of Syntax for Systemic Functional Linguistics

Author: Robin P. Fawcett
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027237131
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 389

Book Description
This book describes and evaluates alternative approaches within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to representing the structure of language at the level of form. It assumes no prior knowledge of SFL, and can therefore be read as an introduction to current issues within the theory. It will interest any linguist who takes a functional approach to understanding language.Part 1 summarizes the major developments in the forty years of SFL's history, including alternative approaches within Halliday's own writings and the emergence of the "Cardiff Grammar" as an alternative to the "Sydney Grammar." It questions the theoretical status of the 'multiple structure' representations in Halliday's influential "Introduction to Functional Grammar" (1994), demonstrating that Halliday's model additionally needs an integrating syntax such as that described in Part 2.Part 2 specifies and discusses the set of 'categories' and 'relationships' that are needed in a theory of syntax for a modern, computer-implementable systemic functional grammar. The theoretical concepts are exemplified at every point, usually from English but occasionally from other languages.The book is both a critique of Halliday's current theory of syntax and the presentation of an alternative version of SFL that is equally systemic and equally functional.