Preface by Hallday
王宗炎序
Preface by Chomsky
沈家煊序
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Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Preliminaries
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Grammar and meaning
1.3 Linguistic choice
1.4 Language in use
1.5 The study of texts
1.6 The notion of rank
1.7 Functions and metafunctions
Summary
Exercises
2 Labels
2.1 Music,mathematics,medicine and motor-vehicle maintenance
2.2 A political allegory
2.3 Word classes
2.4 Subjects
2.5 Groups
2.6 Three ways of looking at a clause
Summary
Further study
Exercises
3 Subject and related functions
3.1 Subject revisited
3.2 Finites and Predicators
3.3 Complements
3.4 Adjuncts
3.5 Sample analysis
3.6 Sample analysis
Summary
Further study
Exercises
4 Information structure and Thematic Structure
4.1 Organizing ideas
4.2 Information structure:Given and New information
4.3 Thematic structure:Theme and Rheme
4.4 The interaction of Information structure and Thematic structure
Summary
Further study
Exercises
5 Grammar and text
5.1 Text and texture
5.2 The textual component of the grammar
5.3 Thematic progression
5.4 Cohesive ties
Summary
Further study
Exercises
6 Process and Participant
6.1 Meanings:the clause as representation
6.2 Processes
6.3 Material Process
6.4 Mental Process
6.5 Relational Process
6.6 Verbal Process
6.7 Other Processes
6.8 Circumstance
Summary
Further study
Exercises
7 Structure of the Nominal Group
7.1 Head and Modifier revisited
7.2 Logical and Experiential functions
7.3 Postmodifier/Qualifier versus Adjunct
7.4 Recursion
7.5 Paratactic Nominal Group complexes
7.6 Other kinds of group complex
Summary
Further study
Exercises
8 Rankshifted clauses
8.1 Randshifted clause as Postmodifier/Qualifier
8.2 The defining relative clause
8.3 Omitted relative pronoun
8.4 Relative with preposition
8.5 Non-finite relative clauses
8.6 Recursion revisited:multiple embedding of clauses
8.7 Rankshifted clause as Subjector Complement
8.8 Non-finite clauses as Subject or Complement
8.9 Extraposition
8.10 Ohter rankshifted clauses
Summary
Further study
Exercises
9 Clause complexes:expansion
9.1 Ways of combining clauses
9.2 ‘Equal’clauses
9.3 Dependent clauses
9.4 More complicated complexes
Summary
Further study
Exercises
10 Clause complexes:projection
10.1 Projection clauses
10.2 Paratactic projection clauses
10.3 Hypotactic projection clauses
10.4 Non-finite projections
10.5 Dependent versus embedded projections
10.6 More complicated examples
10.7 Ambiguous structures
Summary
Further study
Exercises
11 Applications of Functional Analysis
11.1 Explanations and theories
11.2 Writing in science and technology
11.3 Valued texts
11.4 English language teaching
11.5 Language and power
Summary
Further study
Exercises
12 Historical perspectives
12.1 Origins
12.2 Before the twentieth century
12.3 De Saussure
12.4 Some American linguists
12.5 Whorf
12.6 Prague School
12.7 Firth and Malinowski
12.8 Two other contemporary approaches
12.9 Corpus linguistics
12.10 Hallidayan reference grammars
Summary
Further study
Glossary
References
Index of Authors
Subject Index
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