The Routledge handbook of systemic functional linguistics / edited by Tom Bartlett and Gerard O'Grady.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Tu

The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics brings together internationally renowned scholars of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to provide a space for critical examination of the key tenets underpinning SFL theory. Uniquely, it includes description of the three main strands within contemporary SFL scholarship: Halliday’s Introduction to Functional Grammar, Martin’s discourse semantics and Fawcett’s Cardiff Grammar. 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.