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Introducing functional grammar / Geoff Thompson

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Routledge, c2014Edition: Third EditionDescription: xii, 313 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781444152678
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • P147 .T48 2014
Contents:
Chapter1. The purpose of linguistic analysis -- Chapter2. Identifying clauses and clause constituents -- Chapter3. An overview of functional grammar -- Chapter4. Interacting: the interpersonal metafunction -- Chapter5. Representing the world: the experimental metafunction -- Chapter6. Organizing the message: the textual metafunction- Theme -- Chapter7. Clauses in combination -- Chapter8. Organizing the message: The textual metafunction- cohesion -- Chapter9. Grammatical metaphor -- Chapter10. Implications and applications of functional grammar.
Summary: Introducing Functional Grammar, third edition, provides a user-friendly overview of the theoretical and practical aspects of the systemic functional grammar (SFG) model. No prior knowledge of formal linguistics is required as the book provides:An opening chapter on the purpose of linguistic analysis, which outlines the differences between the two major approaches to grammar - functional and formal. An overview of the SFG model - what it is and how it works.
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GC PR 5363 .S53 2014 Pygmalion / GC PR 6056 .R53 1994 The Hippopotamus / GC P 118 .O94 2016 Language development : an introduction / GC P147 .T48 2014 Introducing functional grammar / GC P 165 .G43 2018 Cognitive grammar in stylistics : a practical guide / GC P 221 .L24 2012 Vowels and consonants / GC P 302 .J65 2018 c.1 Discourse analysis /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter1. The purpose of linguistic analysis -- Chapter2. Identifying clauses and clause constituents -- Chapter3. An overview of functional grammar -- Chapter4. Interacting: the interpersonal metafunction -- Chapter5. Representing the world: the experimental metafunction -- Chapter6. Organizing the message: the textual metafunction- Theme -- Chapter7. Clauses in combination -- Chapter8. Organizing the message: The textual metafunction- cohesion -- Chapter9. Grammatical metaphor -- Chapter10. Implications and applications of functional grammar.

Introducing Functional Grammar, third edition, provides a user-friendly overview of the theoretical and practical aspects of the systemic functional grammar (SFG) model. No prior knowledge of formal linguistics is required as the book provides:An opening chapter on the purpose of linguistic analysis, which outlines the differences between the two major approaches to grammar - functional and formal. An overview of the SFG model - what it is and how it works.

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