Systemic Functional Grammar of French

Dr Alice Caffarel is Senior Lecturer in the Department of French Studies at the University of Sydney.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Clause Complexing: Logical Organisation; 3. Enacting an Exchange: Interpersonal Organisation; 4. Grammaticalizing Experience: The Clause as a Process Configuration; 5. Organising Flow of Information: Textual Organisation; 6. Examples of Text Analysis and Interpretation.

"[The] consistent interplay between theoretical and applied pursuits has always been a defining feature of systemic functional theory... This kind of mutual enrichment is clearly demonstrated in Alice Caffarel's work. The result is a description which penetrates to the heart of the language, revealing it at one and the same time as a specimen of the human semiotic and a unique resource for the continuous creation of meaning." - Professor M A K Halliday, from the Preface