Halliday's introduction to functional grammar / M. A. K. Halliday

Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1. The clause -- 1. The architecture of language -- 2. Towards a functional grammar -- 3. Clause as message -- 4. Clause as exchange -- 5. Clause as representation -- Part 2. Above, below and beyond the clause -- 6. Below the clause: groups and phrases -- 7. Above the clause: the clause complex -- 8. Group and phrase complexes -- 9. Around the clause: cohesion and discourse -- 10. Beyond the clause: the metaphorical modes of expression.

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 and 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.