Michele Zappavigna is Senior Lecturer at the School of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales, Australia. Shoshana Dreyfus is Senior Lecturer of Linguistics, University of Wollongong, Australia.

• Notes on ContributorsPreface, Michele Zappavigna and Shoshana DreyfusAcknowledgements1. J. R. Martin, Language and Linguistics, Yaegan Doran2. Attitudinal Alignments in Journalistic Commentary and Social-Media Argumentation: The Construction of Values-Based Group Identities in the Online Comments of Newspaper Readers, Peter White3. The Foundational Role of Discourse Semantics beyond Language, John Bateman4. Construing Entities through Nominal Groups in Chinese, Pin Wang5. Launching Research: A Martinian Perspective on Science Pedagogy, Sally Humphrey, Jing Hao and David Rose6. Familiarity for the Unfamiliar: Thailand, Kinship, Culture and Language, John Knox7. Intermodal Relations, Mass and Presence in School Science Explanation Genres, Len Unsworth8. Engaging Readers and Institutionalizing Attitude: A Social Semiotic Perspective on Multimodal EFL Pedagogic Materials, Yumin Chen9. Uncovering “The Story” behind Meaningful Texts: Bilingual Students’ Intentions and Linguistic Choices, Maria Estela Brisk and Jasmine Alvarado10. We Are All One: Shifting Reference in Reconciliation Talk, Lise Fontaine and Katy Jones11. A Nation Remembers: Discourses of Change, Mourning, and Reconciliation on Australia Day, Helen Caple and Monika BednarekIndex

For Jim Martin, linguistics must make a difference in addressing social issues and themes while demonstrating rigour in methodology. This volume illustrates the ways his particular take on systemic functional linguistics works, in discourse semantics, literacy, attitudinal expression and inter-modality, also revealing the original manner in which analyses are pursued.