Using Functional Grammar
An explorer's guide
Published on 14. September 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
IX, 351 pages
978-1-4202-5678-9 (ISBN)
Description
Using Functional Grammar: An explorer's guide, now in a revised 3rd edition, is an invaluable resource for students and teachers of English as a first, second or foreign language. This third edition includes a new opening chapter covering some basic concepts of traditional grammar for those who have either forgotten what they learned in the past or who have never had the opportunity to gain the elementary knowledge of such things as word classes and basic sentence or clause structures. From there, this new edition, as with its predecessors, introduces the general notion of language in context and text types, before progressing to a step-by-step exploration of the three metafunctions of language: experience, interpersonal exchange and textual organisation. The two final chapters, new to this edition, concentrate on practical applications of functional grammar theory for language education, analysis of multimodality in texts, literature, and professional contexts such as psychotherapy.
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Persons
David Butt, Rhondda Fahey, Susan Feez and Sue Spinks David Butt is an Associate Professor of Linguistics as well as the Director of the Centre for Language in Social Life at Macquarie University. Rhondda Fahey retired from Linguistics at Macquarie University at the end of 2005. She is now living in Melbourne and applying her grammatical knowledge to theology while studying for a Master of Divinity at the MCD University of Divinity, Australia's first specialised university. Susan Feez is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at UNE. She specialises in English language and literacy education, TESOL, and educational linguistics. Sue Spinks is a Senior Lecturer of Linguistics at Macquarie University. She also coordinates the Macquarie University Writing Skills Program for undergraduate students and, in 2010, received an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) citation for excellence in teaching.
Content
Chapter 1 Out of the tradition Chapter 2 Towards text and context Chapter 3 Exploring grammatical function and form Chapter 4 How speakers represent the world: exploring experiential meanings Chapter 5 How speakers interact with language: exploring interpersonal meanings Chapter 6 How speakers take a position: Exploring interpersonal meanings further Chapter 7 How speakers organise their message: exploring textual meanings Chapter 8 Patterns of clause combination Chapter 9 Exploring context Chapter 10 Exploring text Chapter 11 Applying functional grammar to language education Chapter 12 Applying functional grammar to literary stylistics Appendix A More information about nouns and adjectives Appendix B Summary of metalanguage for each analysis Appendix C Meaning patterns across a text Appendix D Prepositional phrase (and adverbial group) help sheet Appendix E Templates for summarising experiential meanings Appendix F Templates for summarising interpersonal meanings Appendix G Templates for summarising textual meanings of Theme Appendix H Template for exploring nominal group structures Appendix I Sample text analysis: Drought text Appendix J The structure of the Nursery Tale