The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics

_x000D_ _x000D_ The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics brings together internationally renowned Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) scholars 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._x000D_ In five sections and thirty-eight interdisciplinary chapters, this is the first handbook to cover the whole architecture of SFL theory, comprising: _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ the ontology and epistemology of SFL_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ SFL as a clause grammar_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ lexicogrammar below the clause, and SFL’s approach to constituency_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ SFL’s vibrant theory of language above the clause_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ SFL as a theory of praxis with real world applications._x000D_ _x000D_ With a 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 Systemic Functional Linguistics or Functional Grammar.