Geoff Thompson is Honorary Senior Fellow at the School of English, University of Liverpool.

• Foreword Acknowledgements Chapter 1: The purposes of linguistic analysisChapter 2: Recognizing clauses and clause constituentsChapter 3: An overview of functional grammarChapter 4: Interacting: the interpersonal metafunctionChapter 5: Representing the world: the experiential metafunctionChapter 6: Organizing the message: the textual metafunction - themeChapter 7: Organizing the message: the textual metafunction - cohesionChapter 8: Clauses in combinationChapter 9: Grammatical metaphorChapter 10: Implications and applications of functional grammarAnswers to exercises Further reading References Index

This… is a more detailed and user-friendly introductionto an approach to grammar through meaning and function. Functionalgrammar is presented here in a context that enables a broadersocio-cultural orientation to be shown of how language works. Thompsondoes this with clarity and the engagement of his readers in the courseof ten chapters ... The book also provides a detailed index,suggestions for answers to exercises, a comprehensive list ofreferences, as well as five pages of further reading, related to eachchapter. This is especially helpful for beginners and researchers, notto mention teachers ... [It] serves as a most worthwhile introductionto systemic functional grammar and should be on the bookshelf of thoseworking in the TESOL field. Margaret Bade, NZSAL

Geoff Thompson is Honorary Senior Fellow at the School of English, University of Liverpool.

• Foreword Acknowledgements Chapter 1: The purposes of linguistic analysisChapter 2: Recognizing clauses and clause constituentsChapter 3: An overview of functional grammarChapter 4: Interacting: the interpersonal metafunctionChapter 5: Representing the world: the experiential metafunctionChapter 6: Organizing the message: the textual metafunction - themeChapter 7: Organizing the message: the textual metafunction - cohesionChapter 8: Clauses in combinationChapter 9: Grammatical metaphorChapter 10: Implications and applications of functional grammarAnswers to exercises Further reading References Index

This… is a more detailed and user-friendly introductionto an approach to grammar through meaning and function. Functionalgrammar is presented here in a context that enables a broadersocio-cultural orientation to be shown of how language works. Thompsondoes this with clarity and the engagement of his readers in the courseof ten chapters ... The book also provides a detailed index,suggestions for answers to exercises, a comprehensive list ofreferences, as well as five pages of further reading, related to eachchapter. This is especially helpful for beginners and researchers, notto mention teachers ... [It] serves as a most worthwhile introductionto systemic functional grammar and should be on the bookshelf of thoseworking in the TESOL field. Margaret Bade, NZSAL

Geoff Thompson is Honorary Senior Fellow at the School of English, University of Liverpool.

• Foreword Acknowledgements Chapter 1: The purposes of linguistic analysisChapter 2: Recognizing clauses and clause constituentsChapter 3: An overview of functional grammarChapter 4: Interacting: the interpersonal metafunctionChapter 5: Representing the world: the experiential metafunctionChapter 6: Organizing the message: the textual metafunction - themeChapter 7: Organizing the message: the textual metafunction - cohesionChapter 8: Clauses in combinationChapter 9: Grammatical metaphorChapter 10: Implications and applications of functional grammarAnswers to exercises Further reading References Index

This… is a more detailed and user-friendly introductionto an approach to grammar through meaning and function. Functionalgrammar is presented here in a context that enables a broadersocio-cultural orientation to be shown of how language works. Thompsondoes this with clarity and the engagement of his readers in the courseof ten chapters ... The book also provides a detailed index,suggestions for answers to exercises, a comprehensive list ofreferences, as well as five pages of further reading, related to eachchapter. This is especially helpful for beginners and researchers, notto mention teachers ... [It] serves as a most worthwhile introductionto systemic functional grammar and should be on the bookshelf of thoseworking in the TESOL field. Margaret Bade, NZSAL