Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Congratulations to Professor M. A. K. Halliday on the occasion of your 80th birthday ix
4. Part I The beginnings
5. 1 M. A. K. Halliday: the early years, 1925–1970 3
6. 2 The development of systemic functional linguistics in China 15
7. 3 Introduction: a working model of language 37
8. Part II Around language
9. 4 Language and society in a systemic functional perspective 55
10. 5 Method and imagination in Halliday’s science of linguistics 81
11. 6 The interpersonal gateway to the meaning of mind: unifying the inter- and intraorganism perspective on language 117
12. 7 Topics in multimodality 157
13. Part III With language
14. 8 What people do to know: the construction of knowledge as a social-semiotic activity 185
15. 9 Developing dimensions of an educational linguistics 217
16. 10 Designing literacy pedagogy: scaffolding democracy in the classroom 251
17. 11 Grammatics in schools 281
18. 12 SFL in text-based, web-enhanced language study 311
19. 13 SFL in computational contexts: a contemporary history 343
20. 14 Acquired language disorders: some functional insights 383
21. 15 SFL and the study of literature 413
22. 16 Semantic variation 457
23. 17 Halliday and translation theory – enhancing the options, broadening the range and keeping the ground 481
24. Continuing Discourse on Language A functional perspective Volume 2
25. Word as linguist 502
26. Part 4 Inside language
27. 18 The ‘architecture’ of language according to systemic functional theory: developments since the 1970s 505
28. 19 From microfunction to metaphor: learning language and learning through language 563
29. 20 The work of concepts: context and metafunction in the systemic functional model 589
30. 21 Field and multimodal texts 619
31. 22 Models of discourse: Carmel Cloran, Virginia Stuart-Smith and Lynne Young 647
32. 23 Unfolding Theme: the development of clausal and textual perspectives on Theme 671
33. 24 Semantic networks: the description of linguistic meaning in SFL 697
34. 25 Invoking attitude: the play of graduation in appraising discourse 739
35. 26 Lexicogrammar in systemic functional linguistics: descriptive and theoretical developments in the ‘IFG’ tradition since the 1970s 765
36. 27 Typology of MOOD: a text-based and system-based functional view 859
37. 28 Auxiliary Extensions: six new elements for describing English 921
38. 29 Between lexis and grammar: towards a systemic functional approach to phraseology 953
39. 30 Intonation in systemic functional linguistics 979
40. List of contributors 1041
41. Index 1042