Introducing Functional Grammar - 9781444152678

Introducing Functional Grammar, Third Edition, gives you a user-friendly overview of the theoretical and practical aspects of the systemic functional grammar (SFG) model.

By providing numerous examples of text analysis using the categories introduced and discussing what the analysis shows about how the text works, this third edition is an accessible introduction to functional grammar based closely on the fourth edition of Halliday and Matthiessen's Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar.

No prior knowledge of formal linguistics is required because the book provides:

• an opening chapter on the purpose of linguistic analysis, which outlines the differences between the two major approaches to grammar - functional and formal
  
  
• sound advice and practice on identifying elements of language structure such as clauses and clause constituents