Description
Providing a simple – but not simplistic – introduction to the Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) of English, this book serves as a launching pad for the beginning student and a review for the more seasoned linguist. With an introduction to SFG through lexicogrammar and the concept of rankshift, this book is the first introduction to SFG (including Appraisal) with examples exclusively sourced from twenty-first century texts. Written for those learning English and English linguistics as a foreign language, this serves as an easy-to-read introduction or refresher course for Systemic Functional Linguistics.
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Some introductory remarks to get us started.
Summary
Chapter 2. Grammatical parts and how they work together.
Analysing a more extended example.
Summary
Activities & Exercises
Chapter 3. Representing the world.
The ideational metafunction.
Material process.
Mental process.
Relational process.
Verbal Process.
Existential process.
Oblique participants.
Analysing a more extended example;
Summary
Activities & Exercises
Chapter 4. The speaker’s relationships.
Mood.
Analysing a more extended example.
Modality.
Speech Acts.
Summary
Activities & Exercises
Chapter 5. Getting the message in order.
Thematic structure.
Analysing a more extended example.
Thematic progression.
Analysing a more extended example.
Information structure.
Analysing a more extended example.
Cohesion: reference.
Analysing a more extended example.
Cohesion: lexical chains.
Analysing a more extended example.
Summary
Activities & Exercises
Chapter 6. Extending the interpersonal metafunction.
Attitude.
Analysing a more extended example.
Engagement.
Graduation.
Summary
Activities & Exercises
Chapter 7. Modelling the text.
Summary
Activities & Exercises
Chapter 8. The text in context.
Summary
Activities & Exercises
Chapter 9. Final thoughts: a launching pad.
Further Reading.
Glossary.
Key to Activities & Exercises.
Index.
