Systemic Functional Grammar of English

David Banks is Emeritus Professor at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale in France. He is former Head of the English Department, Director of Equipe de Recherche en Linguistique Appliquée (ERLA) and Chairman of Association Française de la Linguistique Systémique Fonctionnelle (AFLSF). He is author or editor of 30 books and has published over 110 academic articles. His publication The Development of Scientific Writing: Linguistic features and historical context (2008) won the European Society for the Study of English Language and Linguistics Book Award in 2010. His research interests include the diachronic study of scientific text and the application of Systemic Functional Linguistics to English and French.

• ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Some introductory remarks to get us started.SummaryChapter 2. Grammatical parts and how they work together.Analysing a more extended example.SummaryActivities & Exercises Chapter 3. Representing the world.The ideational metafunction.Material process.Mental process.Relational process.Verbal Process.Existential process.Oblique participants.Analysing a more extended example;SummaryActivities & Exercises Chapter 4. The speaker’s relationships.Mood.Analysing a more extended example.Modality.Speech Acts.SummaryActivities & Exercises Chapter 5. Getting the message in order.Thematic structure.Analysing a more extended example.Thematic progression.Analysing a more extended example.Information structure.Analysing a more extended example.Cohesion: reference.Analysing a more extended example.Cohesion: lexical chains.Analysing a more extended example.SummaryActivities & Exercises Chapter 6. Extending the interpersonal metafunction.Attitude.Analysing a more extended example.Engagement.Graduation.SummaryActivities & Exercises Chapter 7. Modelling the text.SummaryActivities & Exercises Chapter 8. The text in context.SummaryActivities & Exercises Chapter 9. Final thoughts: a launching pad.Further Reading.Glossary.Key to Activities & Exercises.Index.