Halliday's introduction to functional grammar

✍ Scribed by Halliday, Michael Alexander Kirkwood;Matthiessen, Christian M. I. M

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 808
• Edition: Fourth edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cover; Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Conventions; Introduction; Part I The Clause; 1 The architecture of language; 1.1 Text and grammar; 1.2 Phonology and grammar; 1.3 Basic concepts for the study of language; 1.4 Context, language and other semiotic systems; 1.5 The location of grammar in language; the role of the corpus; 1.6 Theory, description and analysis; 2 Towards a functional grammar; 2.1 Towards a grammatical analysis; 2.2 The lexicogrammar cline; 2.3 Grammaticalization; 2.4 Grammar and the corpus.;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 serve.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Conventions
Introduction
Part I The Clause
1 The architecture of language
1.1 Text and grammar
1.2 Phonology and grammar
1.3 Basic concepts for the study of language
1.4 Context, language and other semiotic systems
1.5 The location of grammar in language
the role of the corpus
1.6 Theory, description and analysis
2 Towards a functional grammar
2.1 Towards a grammatical analysis
2.2 The lexicogrammar cline
2.3 Grammaticalization
2.4 Grammar and the corpus. 2.5 Classes and functions
2.6 Subject, Actor, Theme
2.7 Three lines of meaning in the clause
3 Clause as message
3.1 Theme and Rheme
3.2 Group/phrase complexes as Theme
thematic equatives
3.3 Theme and mood
3.4 Textual, interpersonal and topical Themes
3.5 The information unit: Given + New
3.6 Given + New and Theme + Rheme
3.7 Predicated Themes
3.8 Theme in bound, minor and elliptical clauses
3.9 Thematic interpretation of a text
4 Clause as exchange
4.1 The nature of dialogue
4.2 The Mood element
4.3 Other elements of Mood structure
4.4 Mood as system
further options. 4.5 POLARITY and MODAL ASSESSMENT (including modality)
4.6 Absence of elements of the modal structure
4.7 Clause as Subject
4.8 Texts
5 Clause as representation
5.1 Modelling experience of change
5.2 Material clauses: processes of doing- & -happening
5.3 Mental clauses: processes of sensing
5.4 Relational clauses: processes of being & having
5.5 Other process types
summary of process types
5.6 Circumstantial elements
5.7 Transitivity and voice: another interpretation
5.8 Text illustrations
Part II Above, Below and Beyond the Clause
6 Below the clause: groups and phrases. 6.1 Groups and phrases
6.2 Nominal group
6.3 Verbal group
6.4 Adverbial group, conjunction group, preposition group
6.5 Prepositional phrase
6.6 Word classes and group functions
7 Above the clause: the clause complex
7.1 The notion of 'clause complex'
7.2 Types of relationship between clauses
7.3 Taxis: parataxis and hypotaxis
7.4 Elaborating, extending, enhancing: three kinds of expansion
7.5 Reports, ideas and facts: three kinds of projection
7.6 The clause complex as textual domain
7.7 Clause complex and tone
7.8 Texts
8 Group and phrase complexes. 8.1 Overview of complexing at group/phrase rank
8.2 Parataxis: groups and phrases
8.3 Hypotaxis: nominal group
8.4 Hypotaxis: adverbial group/prepositional phrase
8.5 Hypotaxis: verbal group, expansion (1): general
8.6 Hypotaxis: verbal group, expansion (2): passives
8.7 Hypotaxis: verbal group, expansion (3): causative
8.8 Hypotaxis: verbal group, projection
8.9 Logical organization: complexes at clause and group/phrase structure, and groups
9 Around the clause: cohesion and discourse
9.1 The concept of text
logogenetic patterns
9.2 The lexicogrammatical resources of COHESION.

✦ Subjects

Functionalism (Linguistics);Grammar, Comparative and general;LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--Historical & Comparative;Electronic books;LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative