Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics: 2nd Edition

by Suzanne Eggins

Book Overview

New edition of a best-selling introduction to systemic functional linguistics explores the social semiotic approach to language most closely associated with the work of Michael Halliday and his colleagues. An approach which views language as a strategic, meaning-making resource, systemic linguistics focuses on the analysis of authentic, everyday texts, and asks both how people use language to make meanings, and how language itself is organised...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826457878
• ISBN13: 9780826457875
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.7" x 9.9"