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Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar

By M. A. K. Halliday , Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
ISBN
9780203431269
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13783312 bytes)
Edition
4th
Pages
790\808
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2015-04-13 13:09:03

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.

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