The Functional Analysis of English: A Hallidayan Approach

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The Functional Analysis of English is an introduction to the analysis and description of English, based on the principles of systemic functional linguistics. It sets out the tools and analytic techniques of Hallidayan grammar with clear explanations of terminology and illustrates these with examples from a variety of texts, including science, travel, history and literary sources. This revised third edition incorporates references to recent research, better explanations of complex problems, and additional exercises. Cover The Functional Analysis of English Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements List of symbols 1 A meaningful approach 1.1 How to use this book 1.2 Grammar and meaning 1.3 Meaning potential 1.4 System networks 1.5 Language in use 1.6 The study of texts 1.7 The notion of rank 1.8 Functions and metafunctions Summary Further study Exercises 2 Labels 2.1 Music, mathematics, medicine and motor-vehicle maintenance 2.2 A political parable 2.3 Word classes 2.4 Subjects 2.5 Groups 2.6 Three ways of looking at a clause Summary Further study Exercises 3 Clause structure 3.1 Subject revisited 3.2 Finites and Predicators 3.3 Complements 3.4 Adjuncts 3.5 Sample analysis Summary Further study Exercises 4 Information structure and thematic structure 4.1 Organizing ideas 4.2 Information structure: Given and New information 4.3 Thematic structure: Theme and Rheme 4.4 The interaction of information structure and thematic structure Summary Further study Exercises 5 Grammar and text 5.1 Text and texture 5.2 The textual component of the grammar 5.3 Thematic progression 5.4 Cohesive ties Summary Further study Exercises 6 Process and participant 6.1 Transitivity: the clause as representation 6.2 Processes 6.3 Material process 6.4 Mental process 6.5 Relational process 6.6 Verbal process 6.7 Other processes 6.8 Grammatical metaphor 6.9 Circumstance Summary Further study Exercises 7 Group structure 7.1 Groups revisited 7.2 Nominal Groups 7.3 Verbal groups 7.4 Other group complexes and phrase complexes Summary Further study Exercises 8 Embedded clauses 8.1 Embedded clause as Postmodifier/Qualifier 8.2 Multiple embedding of clauses 8.3 Embedded clause as Subject or Complement 8.4 Postposed clauses 8.5 Other embedded clauses Summary Further study Exercises 9 Clause complexes: expansion 9.1 Ways of combining clauses 9.2 Paratactic clause relations 9.3 Hypotactic clause relations 9.4 More complicated complexes Summary Further study Exercises 10 Clause complexes: projection 10.1 Projection 10.2 Paratactic projection 10.3 Hypotactic projection 10.4 Non-finite projection 10.5 Grammatical metaphor: embedding versus dependency 10.6 Even more complicated complexes 10.7 Ambiguous structures Summary Further study Exercises 11 Applications of functional analysis 11.1 Explanations and theories 11.2 Writing in science and technology 11.3 Language development and language teaching 11.4 Language and literature: valued texts 11.5 Language and power 11.6 On applications and SFL theory Summary Further study 12 Historical perspectives 12.1 Origins 12.2 Before the twentieth century 12.3 De Sauss 12.4 Linguistics in America 12.5 Whorf 12.6 The Prague School 12.7 Malinowski and Firth 12.8 Corpus linguistics 12.9 Some functional alternatives 12.10 Systemic functional ‘grammars’ Summary Further study Answer key Glossary References Index of authors Subject index