Books in the Functional Linguistics series

Combines the interests of the two approaches to language description - Systemic Functional Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics - both of which are based on the observation of naturally-occurring, as opposed to invented, language.

Looks at two popular approaches to language description: Systemic Functional Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics

'Functional Dimensions of Ape-Human Discourse' asks the question 'what do interactions between apes and humans mediated by language tell us?'. In order to answer this question the authors explore language-in-context, drawing on a multi-leveled, multi-functional linguistics.

Problematises the process of identifying and explaining the patterning of words in sentences. This book brings together two concepts - syntax and text - that are normally treated separately, and shows how they can best be understood in relation to each other. It concentrates on getting texts ready for syntactic analysis.

This book is one of the first applications of a functional approach to language across time. It first summarizes and evaluates previous studies of the development of scientific language, including Halliday's exploration of this fascinating topic. It then traces the development of scientific writing as a genre, in terms of its linguistic features, from Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe (the first technical text written in English) almost to the present. It goes on to consider texts by major scientists of the late seventeenth century, and then analyses and discusses a corpus of texts taken from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, covering the period 1700 to 1980.

Texture - the quality that makes a text 'hang together' as a text - is a key focus of investigation in discourse analysis. Divided into two parts, this volume provides an overview of research on textual resources that are used to construct texture, and on the ways in which these resources are deployed differently in different text types.

This book explores some of the developments in Stylistics since its pioneer, Roman Jakobson identified the patterning of the message as the poetic function. This collection of essays will be especially useful for students of Stylistics courses at the undergraduate and graduate level as it illustrates the use of a range of analytical tools

Shares the debates by systemic functional linguistics and other linguistic forums. This title focuses on how we use language to make meaning of the world, on how the systems and structures of the ideational function of language represent the realisation of our experiences of the world around us.

Offers a description of the Old English dialect on systemic functional principles. This book covers structures and functions within nominal, verbal and adverbial groups; relationships among clauses; embedding; and cohesion.

This volume provides examples of cutting-edge research in contrastive analyses of different languages. The papers have been organized around four themes: studies of discourse markers; information structure; registers and genres; and phraseology.

Asks the question 'what do interactions between apes and humans mediated by language tell us?'. In order to answer this question this book explores language-in-context, drawing on a multi-leveled, multi-functional linguistics. It articulates a methodology incorporating public domain software for the comprehensive analysis of ape-human interaction.

This long-awaited volume presents thirteen original contributions by some of the leading scholars in Systemic Phonology. The chapters present both theoretical and applied studies with analyses of wide-ranging texts including news readings, children's stories, literary classics, classroom discourse, and sung texts.