Systemic Functional Language Description

J.R. Martin is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia, where he is also Deputy Director of the LCT Centre for Knowledge-Building.Y.J. Doran is Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Research Fellow at the LCT Centre for Knowledge-Building at the University of Sydney, Australia.Giacomo Figueredo is a Researcher and Senior Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at the Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil.

• Table of contents Describing languages, understanding language: Systemic Functional theory and description Y.J. Doran and J.R. Martin Part I: Understanding grammar Axial argumentation below the clause: The verbal group in Khorchin MongolianDongbing Zhang Axial argumentation and cryptogrammar in interpersonal grammar: A case study of Classical Tibetan moodPin Wang Experiential cryptotypes: reasoning about process typeBeatriz Quiroz Axial argumentation and cryptogrammar in textual grammar: theme in Brazilian PortugueseGiacomo Figueredo Arguments for seeing Theme-Rheme and Topic-Comment as separate functional structuresRandy J. LaPolla Part II: Contextualising grammar Functional language typology: A discourse semantic perspective J.R. Martin and Beatriz Quiroz Construing relations between scientific activities through Mandarin ChineseJing Hao The Baboon and the Bee: Exploring register patterns across languagesDavid Rose Language shift: Bilingual exchange structure in classroom interactions Harni Kartika Ningsih Academic formalisms: Toward a semiotic typology Y.J. Doran