The Functional Analysis of English A Hallidayan Approach

• Main Authors: Bloor, Thomas 1935- (Author), Meriel Bloor 1934- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Edward Arnold 1995
• Subjects: Halliday, M. A. K. > 1925- > Michael Alexander Kirkwood; English language > Grammar; Functionalism (Linguistics)
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This book provides a basic introduction to systemic-functional linguistics in the context of English. It presents the principles of a Hallidayan approach to language studies and introduces, in an explanatory way, a set of techniques for the grammatical analysis of English. The book includes an ov...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Preliminaries
• 2. Labels
• 3. Subject and related functions
• 4. Information Structure and Thematic Structure
• 5. Grammar and text
• 6. Process and Participant
• 7. Structure of the Nominal Group
• 8. Rankshifted clauses
• 9. Clause complexes: expansion
• 10. Clause complexes: projection
• 11. Applications of Functional Analysis
• 12. Historical perspectives.