The Functional Analysis of English: A Hallidayan Approach

By Meriel Bloor, Thomas Bloor, Thomas; Bloor Meriel Bloor

Book Overview

This book provides a basic introduction to systemic-functional linguistics in the context of English. It presents the principles of a Hallidayan approach to language studies and introduces, in an explanatory way, a set of techniques for the grammatical analysis of English.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340600128
• ISBN13: 9780340600122
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

An excellent introduction to functional grammar

Halliday's functional grammar is a unique way of describing how language is actually used in a social situation. This is not a grammar of rules, but rather an analysis of language and its functions. Tom and Meriel Bloor's book is the best introduction to this grammar. Written as a course textbook, with a clear, methodical presentation and exercises, it can also be read as a general introduction for the curious. It is complete and highly readable, and the grammatical theories it presents and explains can be useful to anyone who works with language, to better understand how language works. Language is not examined here out of context - in fact, context is one of the key factors in Halliday's grammar - rather, Bloor and Bloor show how isolated bits of text fit in with the larger perspective of language as a whole.