Bloomsbury Companion to Systemic Functional Linguistics

M.A.K. Halliday was Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also the Managing Editor of the International Linguistics Association's journal WORD, and the editor of the forthcoming Journal of World Languages (2014).

"This volume brings together twelve contributions from leading figures working in 'the IFG tradition' within Systemic Functional Linguistics. Each provides an overview of one aspect of recent thinking in this version of SFL, with its strongly social and cultural orientation. For readers who are looking for a one-volume summary that gives the authentic flavour of this significant body of work, I warmly recommend this book." - Robin P Fawcett, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Cardiff University, UK.

• 1. Introduction, Jonathan Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 2. Key terms, M A K Halliday 3. Ideas & new directions, Christian Matthiessen (Macquarie University, Australia) 4. Methods, techniques, problems, M A K Halliday 5. Language development, Clare Painter (University of New South Wales, Australia)6. Language and other primate species, James Benson (York University, Canada) & Paul Thibault (Agder University College, Kristiansand, Norway)7. Computational linguistics, Elke Teich (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)8. Corpus-based research, Wu Canzhong 9. Clinical applications, Elizabeth Armstrong 10. Multimodality & other semiotic systems, Paul Thibault (Agder University College, Kristiansand, Norway)11. Discourse studies, Jim Martin (University of Sydney, Australia)12. Context, Ruqaiya Hasan 13. Literary stylistics, Annabelle Lukin (Macquarie University, Australia) & David Butt (Macquarie University, Australia) 14. Resources, courses/centres, Mick O'Donnell (University Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)BibliographyIndex