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Working with Functional Grammar Christian Matthiessen

Working with Functional Grammar By Christian Matthiessen

Working with Functional Grammar by Christian Matthiessen


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This workbook is designed to teach and practise a wide range of grammatical analyses provided by M.A.K. Halliday in his Introduction to Functional Grammar. It summarizes his main points, clarifies problems in analysis and provides graded exercises and texts.

Working with Functional Grammar Summary

Working with Functional Grammar by Christian Matthiessen

This workbook is designed to teach and practice a wide range of grammatical analyses provided by M.A.K. Halliday in his Introduction to Functional Grammar. Halliday's work opened up the possibility of using grammar to explore how a text means what it does; this workbook seeks to help students understand Halliday's ideas and to apply them in the analysis of English texts. The book contains summaries of Halliday's main points, clarifications of problems in analysis and graded exercises and texts to build students' skills in grammatical analysis. A troubleshooting section is included in each chapter which addresses the practical difficulties that may arise when applying grammatical analysis to a variety of texts. Useful for anyone who has an interest in the linguistic analysis of text and who wishes to use the insights of Halliday's grammar, this book can be used alone to support a course in functional grammar or in conjunction with Introduction to Functional Grammar. While assuming no prior knowledge of functional grammar, it caters not only for the novice but for readers with varying degrees of linguistic expertise and familiarity with Halliday's work.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction: What is functional grammar?; why this functional grammar?; using the workbook; getting started with text analysis; constituency - functional and class units; reasoning in a functional grammar; paradigms as system networks; choice and constituency; learning to use IFG; theme; mood; transivity; the clause complex; key to chapter 2 - theme; key to chapter 3 - mood; key to chapter 4 - transivity; key to chapter 5 - the clause complex.

Additional information

GOR008816834
9780340652503
0340652500
Working with Functional Grammar by Christian Matthiessen
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
19961224
352
N/A
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