David Caldwell is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literacy at the University of South Australia, Australia.John S. Knox is Honorary Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Macquarie University, Australia.J. R. Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.

• List of FiguresList of TablesNotes on ContributorsPrefaceIntroduction, J. R. Martin, John S. Knox and David CaldwellPart I: Innovative Description1. Graduation in Research Writing: Managing the Dual Demands of Objectivity and Critique, Susan Hood (University of Sydney, Australia)2. A Balancing Act: Theorizing Compositional Choices in Photographs, Helen Caple (University of New South Wales, Australia)3. Developing a Multimodal Rank Scale, John S. Knox (Macquarie University, Australia)4. A Hip-Hop Battle: Describing Sound in the Contested Academy, David Caldwell (University of South Australia, Australia)Part II: Innovative Practice5. ‘There are known unknowns…’: Turning to Systemic Functional Linguistics to Understand Language Use in a Classified Military Context, Elizabeth A. Thomson (Charles Sturt University, Australia)6. Designing Pedagogic Registers: Reading to Learn, David Rose (University of Sydney, Australia)7. Developing a Systemic Functional Grammar of Korean as a Resource for Practical Application, Mira Kim (UNSW Sydney, Australia)8. The Reading to Learn Bilingual Program: Taking Multilingualism into Genre-Based Pedagogic Practices, Harni Kartika Ningsih (Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia)9. Big Data and Managing Multimodal Complexity, Kay O’Halloran, Sabine Tanb, Peter Wignellb, Rebecca Langeb, Kevin Chaib and Michael Wiebrandsb (University of Liverpool, UK and Curtin University, Australia)10. Our Own Double Helix: The Power of Teachers and Students Understanding how Language Works in Schooling Contexts, Brian Dare and John Polias (Lexis Education, Australia)11. ‘Appliability’ of SFL in Two Academic Contexts in Argentina: Developing the Teaching of Academic Genres in Spanish, Estela Inés Moyano (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina)12. Developing an SFL-Inspired Four-Year Collegiate Foreign Language Program: Contexts, Constructs, Curriculum, Heidi Byrnes (Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA)13. Putting Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Sydney School Genre Pedagogy (SSGP) to Work in a Compulsory First-Year Arts Subject, Shoshana Dreyfus (University of Wollongong, Australia) and Trish Weekes (Literacy Works, Australia)Part III: Evolving Theory14. Modelling Newborn Screening Genetics Diagnosis Texts: Language as a Tool for Research and Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease, Giacomo Figueredo (Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil) and Kelen Cristina (Sant’Anna de Lima Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)15. Re-Reading Reading Images, Theo van Leeuwen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)16. The Appraisal Framework and Analyses of Journalistic Discourse: Objectivity, Subjectivity and Attitudinal Positioning, Peter White (University of New South Wales, Australia)17. Binding and Bonding: A Retrospective and Prospective Gaze, Maree Stenglin (Independent scholar)18. Affiliation: An Appliable Framework for Exploring Community and Identity in Discourse, Lorenzo Logi and Michele Zappavigna (University of New South Wales, Australia)19. Semiotic Description: Grappling with Mathematics, Yaegan J. Doran (University of Sydney, Australia)20. Revisiting the Modelling of ‘Big Texts’ in SFL: The Role of Embedding in Construing ‘Depth’ in Long Business Reports, Eszter Szenes (University of Sydney, Australia)Part IV: Appliable Linguistics in Progress21. Re-Thinking the Unit of Phase in the Analysis of Classroom Discourse, Lucy Macnaught (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)22. Construing Knowledge through Mandarin Chinese: A Discourse Semantic Perspective, Jing Hao (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)23. Semiotic Software through the Lens of Systemic Functional Theory, Emilia Djonov (Macquarie University, Australia) and Theo Van Leeuwen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)24. Reading to Learn, Learning to Teach: Emergent Bilingual Latina/o/x Parents Read in English to their Young Emergent Bilingual Children at Home, Andres Ramirez (Florida Atlantic University, USA)25. Revitalizing an Endangered Genre: Applying Genre Theory and the Teaching and Learning Cycle, Anna Crane (University of Sydney, Australia)26. Teaching the Nation: Iconography and Nationalism in English Language Textbooks in Post-War Sri Lanka, Namala Tilakaratna (National University of Singapore, Singapore)27. Bodies Talk: Modelling Paralanguage in Systemic Functional Linguistics, Lorenzo Logi, Michele Zappavigna (University of New South Wales, Australia) and J. R. Martin (University of Sydney, Australia)Index

This volume models how the linguistic description that Systemic Functional Linguistics has developed over decades can indeed be used to address practical problems. Through chapters that take on a diverse range of problems, such as pedagogical issues, illness, and popular texts, it offers an excellent cross-section of work that can guide both novice and experienced researchers who are interested in exploring how powerful linguistics can be as a form of social action.