Halliday'S Introduction To Functional Grammar

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. Halliday's innovative approach of engaging with grammar through discourse has become a worldwide phenomenon in linguistics.Fully revised, this fourth edition includes: Recent uses of systemic functional linguistics to provide further guidance for you as you work and study in this fieldMore on the ecology of grammar, illustrating how each major system serves to realise a semantic systemA systematic indexing and classification of examplesMore from corpora, thus allowing you to find and access the same dataExtended textual and audio examples and an image bank available online at updated and revised, this fourth edition of Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar explains the principles of systemic functional grammar, enabling you to understand and apply them in any context.