Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar

by Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen and M.A.K. Halliday

Book Overview

Fully updated and revised, this fourth edition of Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar explains the principles of systemic functional grammar, enabling the reader to understand and apply them in any context. Halliday's innovative approach of engaging with grammar through discourse has become a worldwide phenomenon in linguistics.

Updates to the new edition include:

Recent uses of systemic functional linguistics to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1444146602
• ISBN13: 9781444146608
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 790 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.8" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

A Good Intro

An accessible introduction to systemic functional linguistics. My linguistics professor calls this book "the Bible." :)

A grammar that's about Meaning

Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar, now in its revised and improved Second Edition, is the best book you can read if you want to understand how English grammar is a resource for making meaning. Most formal grammar is just about syntax -- how words get put together grammatically, with no consideration of how people use language to communicate a meaning. This book has been the basis for many of the most successful applications of linguistics to education, language teaching, and studies of culture, communication, mass media, politics, etc. It's a book to read, use, and keep.