Suzanne Eggins was Head of the School of English at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and now runs Textwork, where she is a professional writer and editor.

"This book is certainly a welcome and valuable addition to the current literature both on introduction to systemic functional linguistics and on text analysis. I would certainly recommend this as the main textbook and/or reference book on introduction to systemic functional linguistics and/or systemic functional text analysis." --The Linguist list, May 2005

• Contents from previous edition:1. An Overview of the Systemic Functional Linguistic Approach2. Context of Culture: Genre3. Context of Situation: Register4. Discourse-Semantics: Cohesion in Text5. Introduction to the Lexico-Grammar6. The Grammar of Interpersonal Meaning: Mood7. Systems : Meaning as Choice8. The Grammar of Experiential Meaning: Transitivity9. The Grammar of Textual Meaning: Theme10. Explaining Text: Applying Systemic Functional LinguisticsAppendix: Analyses of the Crying Baby Texts.