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The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics

The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics

The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics

Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool
Wendy L. Bowcher, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Lise Fontaine, Cardiff University
David Schönthal, Cardiff University
April 2019
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9781108651387

    Presenting a field-defining overview of one of the most appliable linguistic theories available today, this Handbook surveys the key issues in the study of systemic functional linguistics (SFL), covering an impressive range of theoretical perspectives. Written by some of the world's foremost SFL scholars, including M. A. K. Halliday, the founder of SFL theory, the handbook covers topics ranging from the theory behind the model, discourse analysis within SFL, applied SFL, to SFL in relation to other subfields of linguistics such as intonation, typology, clinical linguistics and education. Chapters include discussion on the possible future directions in which research might be conducted and issues that can be further investigated and resolved. Readers will be inspired to pursue the challenges raised within the volume, both theoretically and practically.

    • A valuable one-stop resource of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) foundations and developments, for students, lecturers and researchers alike
    • Surveys the key issues in the study of SFL, making it accessible to readers who are unfamiliar with the theory
    • Provides an outline of future directions of the theory and its applications to inspire future research

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    April 2019
    Adobe eBook Reader
    9781108651387
    0 pages
    118 b/w illus. 52 tables
    This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction Wendy L. Bowcher, Lise Fontaine and David Schönthal
    • Part I. SFL: The Model:
    • 1. Firth and the origins of systemic functional linguistics: process, pragma, and polysystem David G. Butt
    • 2. Key concepts and the architecture of language in the SFL model Jonathan J. Webster
    • 3. Semantics Miriam Taverniers
    • 4. The clause: an overview of the lexicogrammar Margaret Berry
    • 5. The rooms of the house: grammar at group rank Lise Fontaine and David Schönthal
    • 6. Context and register Wendy L. Bowcher
    • 7. Intonation Wendy L. Bowcher and Meena Debashish
    • 8. Continuing issues in SFL Mick O'Donnell
    • 9. The Cardiff model of functional syntax Anke Schulz and Lise Fontaine
    • 10. SFL in context Christopher S. Butler
    • Part II. Discourse Analysis within SFL:
    • 11. Models of discourse in systemic functional linguistics Tom Bartlett
    • 12. Cohesion and conjunction Maite Taboada
    • 13. Semantic networks Andy Fung and Francis Robert Low
    • 14. Discourse semantics J. R. Martin
    • 15. Appraisal Susan Hood
    • 16. SFL and diachronic studies David Banks
    • 17. SFL and multimodal discourse analysis Kay L. O'Halloran, Sabine Tan and Peter Wignell
    • 18. SFL and critical discourse analysis Gerard O'Grady
    • Part III. SFL in Application:
    • 19. Language development Geoff Williams
    • 20. Applying SFL for understanding and fostering instructed second language development Heidi Byrnes
    • 21. Language and education: learning to mean Peter Mickan
    • 22. Systemic functional linguistics and computation: new directions, new challenges John Bateman, Daniel McDonald, Tuomo Hiippala, Daniel Couto-Vale and Eugeniu Costetchi
    • 23. Clinical linguistics Elissa Asp and Jessica de Villiers
    • 24. Language and science, language in science, and linguistics as science M. A. K. Halliday and David G. Butt
    • 25. Language and medicine Alison Rotha Moore
    • 26. Language and literature Donna R. Miller
    • 27. Language and social media: enacting identity through ambient affiliation Michele Zappavigna
    • 28. Theorizing and modeling translation Erich Steiner
    • 29. Language typology Abhishek Kumar Kashyap
    • Index.
      Contributors
    • Wendy L. Bowcher, Lise Fontaine, David Schönthal, David G. Butt, Jonathan J. Webster, Miriam Taverniers, Margaret Berry, Meena Debashish, Mick O'Donnell, Anke Schulz, Christopher S. Butler, Tom Bartlett, Maite Taboada, Andy Fung, Francis Robert Low, J. R. Martin, Susan Hood, David Banks, Kay L. O'Halloran, Sabine Tan, Peter Wignell, Gerard O'Grady, Geoff Williams, Heidi Byrnes, Peter Mickan, John Bateman, Daniel McDonald, Tuomo Hiippala, Daniel Couto-Vale, Eugeniu Costetchi, Elissa Asp, Jessica de Villiers, M. A. K. Halliday, Alison Rotha Moore, Donna R. Miller, Michele Zappavigna, Erich Steiner, Abhishek Kumar Kashyap

    • Editors
    • Geoff Thompson , University of Liverpool

      Geoff Thompson (1947–2015) was an Honorary Senior Fellow of the University of Liverpool. He has published many journal articles, chapters and edited volumes, including Evaluation in Context (2014, with L. Alba Juez); Text-Type and Texture (2008, with G. Forey) and System and Corpus: Exploring Connections (2005, with Susan Hunston).

    • Wendy L. Bowcher , Sun Yat-Sen University, China

      Wendy L. Bowcher is Professor and Director of the Functional Linguistics Institute, Sun Yat-sen University, China. Her publications include Society in Language: Language in Society: Essays in Honour of Ruqaiya Hasan (2015, with J. Y. Liang), Systemic Phonology: Recent Studies in English (2014, with B. A. Smith) and Multimodal Texts from Around the World: Cultural and Linguistic Insights (2012).

    • Lise Fontaine , Cardiff University

      Lise Fontaine is Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University. She has published countless articles, chapters and books including Referring in Language: An Integrated Approach (Cambridge, forthcoming), Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics (2018) and Analysing English Grammar: A Systemic Functional Introduction (Cambridge, 2012).

    • David Schönthal , Cardiff University

      David Schönthal is a Research Associate at Cardiff University, working with Professor A. Wray on linguistic perspectives on dementia. His main research interests are different approaches to grammar, the meaning of words, and the implementation of a multimethod approach. He is co-author of Referring in Language: An integrated approach (Cambridge, forthcoming).