Introducing Functional Grammar

Foreword; acknowledgements; the purpose of linguistic analysis - starting points, language, context and function - a preliminary exploration, exercises; identifying clauses and clause constituents - breaking up the sentence - and labelling the parts, ranks, exercises; an overview of functional grammar - three kinds of meaning, register and genre; interaction in the clause - the interpersonal meta-function - introduction, roles of addressers and audience, mood, modality, evaluation, interaction and negotiation, interaction in text, exercises; representing the world - the experiental metafunction - introduction, transitivity, ergativity, exercises; organising the message - the textual metafunction - theme - introduction, theme, identifying theme, thematising structures, theme in clause complexes, multiple theme, some problems in theme analysis, theme in text, exercises; organising the message - the textual meta-function - cohesion, cohesion and coherence, reference and ellipsis, conjunction, cohesion in text, exercise; gram-matical metaphor - introduction, experiental and logical metaphors, interpersonal metaphors, textual metaphors, a cautionary note, exercises; groups and phrases - groups, prepositional phrases, group complexes, exercises; clauses in combination - units of analysis, types of relations be-tween clauses, expansion, projection, exercises; implications and applications of functional grammar - three-dimensional analysis of texts, a summary review of functional grammar, using functional grammar, closing, further reading, answers to exercises; references; index.