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<div>The Continuum Companion to Systemic Functional Linguistics is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for students and researchers. The book includes: introduction to the field by M A K Halliday; comprehensive introduction to methodology and issues; definitions of key terms; outlines of research areas; guide to researching systemic functional linguistics; bibliography of key readings. Comprehensive and accessible, this Continuum Companion will be the essential guide for students and researchers of systemic functional linguistics.</div>>
Synopsis
Designed to be the essential one-volume resource for students and researchers on Systemic Functional Linguistics.
Synopsis
<div>The Continuum Companion to Systemic Functional Linguistics is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for students and researchers. The book includes: introduction to the field by M A K Halliday; comprehensive introduction to methodology and issues; definitions of key terms; outlines of research areas; guide to researching systemic functional linguistics; bibliography of key readings. Comprehensive and accessible, this Continuum Companion will be the essential guide for students and researchers of systemic functional linguistics.</div>>
Table of Contents
1. Introduction, Jonathan Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 2. Key terms, M A K Halliday 3. Ideas and 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) and 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 and 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) and David Butt (Macquarie University, Australia) 14. Resources, courses/centres, Mick O'Donnell (University Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)BibliographyIndex