Bloomsbury Companion to Systemic Functional Linguistics

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M.A.K. Halliday, Jonathan J. Webster
A&C Black, Jul 18, 2009 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 299 pages
The Continuum Companion to Systemic Functional Linguistics is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for students and researchers. The book includes: introduction to the field by M A K Halliday; comprehensive introduction to methodology and issues; definitions of key terms; outlines of research areas; guide to researching systemic functional linguistics; bibliography of key readings. Comprehensive and accessible, this Continuum Companion will be the essential guide for students and researchers of systemic functional linguistics.
 

Contents

1 Introduction
1
2 Ideas new directions
12
3 Methods techniques problems
59
4 Language development
87
5 Language and other primate species
104
6 Linguistic computing
113
7 Corpusbased research
128
8 Clinical applications
143
9 Discourse studies
154
10 The place of context in a systemic functional model
166
construing aesthetic organisation
190
12 Resources and courses
216
13 Keywords
229
References
254
Index
295

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