Contents:
The Linguistics of British Sign Language.
English Syntax and Argumentation. English Words and Sentences.
The Functional Analysis of English. The New Psychology of Language.
The Language of Schooling. An Introduction to Word Grammar. Change in Contemporary English. Second Language Writers' Text. Adjunct Adverbials in English.
An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics. Speech Acts and Clause Types. Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English. Grammatical Case Assignment in Finnish.
The Cambridge Dictionary of Linguistics. Language, Gesture, and Space.
Little Green Apples Publishing. The Typology of Parts of Speech Systems. Patterns and Development in the English Clause System. The English Noun Phrase.
Grammatical Complexity in Academic English. Grammaticalization and English Complex Prepositions. Vocabulary Increase and Collocation Learning.
Essentials of Grammatical Theory. Noun Phrase Complexity in English. Advances in Written Text Analysis. Corpus Approaches to Evaluation. The third edition is updated throughout, and is based closely on the fourth edition of Halliday and Matthiessen's Introduction to Functional Grammar.
A glossary of terms, more exercises and an additional chapter are available on the product page at: Introducing Functional Grammar remains the essential entry guide to Hallidayan functional grammar, for undergraduate and postgraduate students of language and linguistics. Foreword Acknowledgements Chapter 1: The purposes of linguistic analysis Chapter 2: Recognizing clauses and clause constituents Chapter 3: An overview of functional grammar Chapter 4: Clauses in combination Chapter 9: New material on the implications of corpus data and an introduction to systems networks is included; and there is greater emphasis on the exploration of how grammatical analysis can illuminate meaning at text and discourse level.
Much of the content has been reorganised and made more user-friendly in response to feedback from students as well as teachers and other linguists. There are numerous worked examples to illustrate the analysis at each stage, as well as practice activities for the reader to try out.
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The New Psychology of Language. Introducing Functional Grammar by Geoff Thompson. The Language of Schooling. Language, Gesture, and Space. This is especially helpful for beginners and researchers, not to mention teachers