Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar (4^th Ed.)

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.

Preface
PART I: THE CLAUSE
Chapter 1: The architecture of language
Chapter 2: Towards a functional grammar
Chapter 3: Clause as message
Chapter 4: Clause as exchange
Chapter 5: Clause as representation
PART II: ABOVE, BELOW AND BEYOND THE CLAUSE
Chapter 6: Below the clause: groups and phases
Chapter 7: Above the clause: the clause complex
Chapter 8: Group and phrase complexes
Chapter 9: Around the clause: cohesion and discourse
Chapter 10: Beyond the clause: metaphorical modes of expression
References
Index

M.A.K. HALLIDAY is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.

CHRISTIAN M.I.M. MATTHIESSEN is Chair Professor of the Department of English in the Faculty of Humanities at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.