Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar

By Thomas Mailund

Fully updated and revised, this fourth edition of Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar explains the principles of systemic functional grammar, enabling the reader to understand and apply them in any context. Halliday's innovative approach of engaging with grammar through discourse has become a worldwide phenomenon in linguistics.

Updates to the new edition include:

Recent uses of systemic functional linguistics to provide further guidance for students, scholars and researchers More on the ecology of grammar, illustrating how each major system serves to realise a semantic system A systematic indexing and classification of examples More from corpora, thus allowing for easy access to data

Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar, Fourth Edition, is the standard reference text for systemic functional linguistics and an ideal introduction for students and scholars interested in the relation between grammar, meaning and discourse.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1444146602
• ISBN13: 9781444146608
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 790 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.8" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

A Good Intro

An accessible introduction to systemic functional linguistics. My linguistics professor calls this book "the Bible." :)

A grammar that's about Meaning

Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar, now in its revised and improved Second Edition, is the best book you can read if you want to understand how English grammar is a resource for making meaning. Most formal grammar is just about syntax -- how words get put together grammatically, with no consideration of how people use language to communicate a meaning. This book has been the basis for many of the most successful...