The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics Series

The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics

In five sections and thirty-eight interdisciplinary chapters, this is the first handbook to cover the whole architecture of SFL theory, comprising:

• the ontology and epistemology of SFL;
• SFL as a clause grammar;
• lexicogrammar below the clause, and SFL?s approach to constituency;
• SFL?s vibrant theory of language above the clause; and
• SFL as a theory of praxis with real-world applications.

With a wide range of language examples, a comprehensive editors? introduction and a section on further reading, The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics is an essential resource for all those studying and researching SFL or functional grammar.

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Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: reading systemic functional linguistics

Tom Bartlett and Gerard O’Grady

PART I A theoretical overview

2 The place of systemic functional linguistics as a linguistic theory in the twenty-first century

John A. Bateman

3 What is a system? What is a function? A study in contrasts and convergences

Elissa Asp

4 Stratum, delicacy, realisation and rank

Margaret Berry

5 From meaning to form in the Cardiff Model of language and its use

Robin P. Fawcett

PART II At clause rank

6 Systemic functional linguistics and the clause: the experiential metafunction

Kristin Davidse

7 The logical metafunction in systemic functional linguistics

David G. Butt and Jonathan J. Webster

8 Interpersonal meaning and the clause

Thomas Hestbæk Andersen

9 Textual metafunction and theme: what’s ‘it’ about?

Gail Forey and Nicholas Sampson

10 Intonation and systemic functional linguistics: the way forward

Gerard O’Grady

11 Theme in the Cardiff Grammar

Guowen Huang

12 Transitivity in the Cardiff Grammar

Amy Neale

13 Theme in Spanish

Jorge Arús Hita

14 Mood in Japanese

Kazuhiro Teruya

PART III Below the clause

15 The phoneme and word phonology in systemic functional linguistics

Paul Tench

16 Form and function in groups

Edward McDonald

17 The English nominal group: the centrality of the Thing element

Lise Fontaine

18 The adjectival group

Gordon Tucker

19 The verbal group

Beatriz Quiroz

20 The verbal group in French

Alice Caffarel-Cayron

21 The nominal group in Chinese

Eden Sum-hung Li

22 Grammatical metaphor

Miriam Taverniers

PART IV Above the clause

23 Context in systemic functional linguistics: towards scalar supervenience?

Tom Bartlett

24 Field, tenor and mode

Wendy L. Bowcher

25 Cohesion in systemic functional linguistics: a theoretical reflection

Ben Clarke

26 Register analysis in systemic functional linguistics

Alison Rotha Moore

27 Context and meaning in the Sydney architecture of systemic functional linguistics

Ken Tann

28 The appraisal framework and discourse analysis 457

Teresa Oteíza

29 Systemic functional linguistics and genre studies 473

Sheena Gardner

PART V SFL in practice: an appliable theory

30 Systemic functional linguistics and clinical linguistics

Alison Ferguson, Elizabeth Spencer and Elizabeth Armstrong

31 Language as verbal art

Donna R. Miller

32 Discourse analysis

Bob Hodge

33 Corpus and systemic functional linguistics

Serge Sharoff

34 Translation studies

Kerstin Kunz and Elke Teich

35 Interactions between natural–language processing and systemic functional linguistics

Mick O’Donnell

36 Reading images (including moving ones)

Chris Taylor

37 Systemic functional linguistics and language teaching

Anne McCabe

38 Systemic functional linguistics and code theory

Karl Maton and Y. J. Doran

39 Learning how to mean: parent–child interaction

Clare Painter

40 Looking ahead: systemic functional linguistics in the twenty-first century

Gerard O’Grady and Tom Bartlett

Further reading

Index

Tom Bartlett is Reader in Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of Hybrid Voices and Collaborative Change (Routledge, 2012) and Analysing Power in Language (Routledge, 2014).

Gerard O’Grady is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse (2010).