Presenting a field-defining overview of one of the most appliable linguistic theories available today, this Handbook surveys the key issues in the study of systemic functional linguistics (SFL), covering an impressive range of theoretical perspectives. Written by some of the world's foremost SFL scholars, including M. A. K. Halliday, the founder of SFL theory, the handbook covers topics ranging from the theory behind the model, discourse analysis within SFL, applied SFL, to SFL in relation to other subfields of linguistics such as intonation, typology, clinical linguistics and education. Chapters include discussion on the possible future directions in which research might be conducted and issues that can be further investigated and resolved. Readers will be inspired to pursue the challenges raised within the volume, both theoretically and practically.
Author(s): Geoff Thompson, Wendy L. Bowcher, Lise Fontaine, David Schönthal
Series: Cambridge Handbooks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 804
Introduction 1
Wendy L. Bowcher, Lise Fontaine and David Schoenthal
Part I. SFL: The Model:
1. Firth and the origins of systemic functional linguistics: process, pragma, and
polysystem 11
David G. Butt
2. Key concepts and the architecture of language in the SFL model 35
Jonathan J. Webster
3. Semantics 55
Miriam Taverniers
4. The clause: an overview of the lexicogrammar 92
Margaret Berry
5. The rooms of the house: grammar at group rank 118
Lise Fontaine and David Schoenthal
6. Context and register 142
Wendy L. Bowcher
7. Intonation 171
Wendy L. Bowcher and Meena Debashish
8. Continuing issues in SFL 204
Mick O'Donnell
9. The Cardiff model of functional syntax 230
Anke Schulz and Lise Fontaine
10. SFL in context 259
Christopher S. Butler
Part II. Discourse Analysis within SFL:
11. Models of discourse in systemic functional linguistics 285
Tom Bartlett
12. Cohesion and conjunction 311
Maite Taboada
13. Semantic networks 333
Andy Fung and Francis Robert Low
14. Discourse semantics 358
J. R. Martin
15. Appraisal 382
Susan Hood
16. SFL and diachronic studies 410
David Banks
17. SFL and multimodal discourse analysis 433
Kay L. O'Halloran, Sabine Tan and Peter Wignell
18. SFL and critical discourse analysis 462
Gerard O'Grady
Part III. SFL in Application:
19. Language development 487
Geoff Williams
20. Applying SFL for understanding and fostering instructed second language
development 512
Heidi Byrnes
21. Language and education: learning to mean 537
Peter Mickan
22. Systemic functional linguistics and computation: new directions, new challenges
John Bateman, Daniel McDonald, Tuomo Hiippala, Daniel Couto-Vale and Eugeniu
Costetchi 561
23. Clinical linguistics 587
Elissa Asp and Jessica de Villiers
24. Language and science, language in science, and linguistics as science 620
M. A. K. Halliday and David G. Butt
25. Language and medicine 651
Alison Rotha Moore
26. Language and literature 690
Donna R. Miller
27. Language and social media: enacting identity through ambient affiliation 715
Michele Zappavigna
28. Theorizing and modeling translation 739
Erich Steiner
29. Language typology 767
Abhishek Kumar Kashyap
Index 793
