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Introducing functional grammar /

Introducing Functional Grammar, third edition, provides a user-friendly overview of the theoretical and practical aspects of the systemic functional grammar (SFG) model. No prior knowledge of formal linguistics is required as the book provides:An opening chapter on the purpose of linguistic analysis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thompson, Geoff, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 2014.
Edición:Third edition
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 The purposes of linguistic analysis; 1.1 Starting points; 1.1.1 Going in through form; 1.1.2 Going in through meaning; 1.2 Language, context and function: a preliminary exploration; Exercise; 2 Identifying clauses and clause constituents; 2.1 Breaking up the sentence
  • and labelling the parts; 2.1.1 Recognizing constituents; 2.1.2 Structural and functional labels; 2.2 Ranks; Exercise; 3 An overview of Functional Grammar; 3.1 Three kinds of meaning; 3.1.1 The three metafunctions.
  • 3.1.2 Three kinds of function in the clause3.1.3 Three kinds of structure in the clause; 3.1.4 Showing the options: systems networks; 3.1.5 A fourth metafunction; 3.2 Register and genre; 3.2.1 Register (and the corpus); 3.2.2 Genre; Exercise; 4 Interacting: the interpersonal metafunction; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Roles of addressers and audience; 4.3 Mood; 4.3.1 The structure of the Mood; 4.3.2 Identifying Subject and Finite; 4.3.3 Meanings of Subject and Finite; 4.3.4 Mood in non-declarative clauses; 4.3.5 Mood in text; 4.3.6 The Residue; 4.3.7 Modal Adjuncts; 4.4 Modality.
  • 4.4.1 Modality and polarity4.4.2 Types of modality; 4.4.3 Modal commitment; 4.4.4 Modal responsibility; 4.4.5 Modality in text; 4.5 Appraisal; 4.6 Interaction and negotiation; 4.7 Interaction through text; Exercise; 5 Representing the world: the experiential metafunction; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Transitivity: processes and participants; 5.2.1 Material processes; 5.2.2 Mental processes; 5.2.3 Relational processes; 5.2.4 Verbal processes; 5.2.5 Other types of processes; 5.2.6 Other participant roles; 5.2.7 Circumstances; 5.2.8 Transitivity in text; 5.3 More complex aspects of transitivity.
  • 5.3.1 More on material processes5.3.2 More on mental processes; 5.3.3 More on relational processes; 5.3.4 Processes in verbal group complexes; 5.3.5 Participants in causation; 5.4 Transitivity patterns in text; 5.4.1 Analysing transitivity in clauses and in text; 5.4.2 Comparing transitivity choices in different registers; 5.5 Ergativity; Exercise; 6 Organizing the message: the textual metafunction -Theme; 6.1 Introduction: making messages fit together; 6.2 Theme; 6.3 Identifying Theme; 6.3.1 Theme in declarative clauses; 6.3.2 Theme in non-declarative clauses; 6.4 Special thematic structures.
  • 6.4.1 Thematic equatives6.4.2 Predicated Theme; 6.4.3 Thematized comment; 6.4.4 Preposed Theme; 6.4.5 Passive clauses and Theme; 6.5 Theme in clause complexes; 6.6 Multiple Theme; 6.6.1 Conjunctions in Theme; 6.6.2 Conjunctive and modal Adjuncts in Theme; 6.6.3 Textual, interpersonal and experiential elements in Theme; 6.6.4 Interrogatives as multiple Themes; 6.7 Some issues in Theme analysis; 6.7.1 Existential 'there' in Theme; 6.7.2 Interpolations in Theme; 6.7.3 Preposed attributives; 6.7.4 Theme in reported clauses; 6.7.5 Theme and interpersonal grammatical metaphor; 6.8 Theme in text.