本书是介绍功能语法理论的入门书，是阅读M. A. K. Halliday 的经典学术著作《功能语法导论》(An Introduction to Functional Grammar)的预备读本，语言通俗易懂。与第一版相比，本版增加了新的语料数据和系统网络介绍，重点讨论了语法分析如何在语篇层面解释和阐明意义，并回答了以下问题：为什么有必要用一个新的模式和方法来看待和分析语言？系统功能语法是怎样用自己的术语来描述和解释语言现象的？较之于其他语法模式，系统功能语法为什么更为可行可取？

Foreword

Acknowledgements

1 The purposes of linguistic analysis

1.1  Starting points

 1.1.1  Going in through form

 1.1.2  Going in through meaning

1.2  Language, context and function: a preliminary exploration Exercise

2 Recognizing clauses and clause constituents

2.1  Breaking up the sentence - and labelling the parts

 2.1.1  Recognizing constituents

 2.1.2  Structural and functional labels

2.2  Ranks

 Exercises

3 An overview of functional grammar

3.1  Three kinds of meaning

 3.1.1  The three metafunctions

 3.1.2  Three kinds of function in the clause

 3.1.3  Three kinds of structure in the clause

 3.1.4  Showing the options: systems networks

 3.1.5 A fourth metafunction

3.2  Register and genre

 3.2.1  Register (and the corpus)

 3.2.2  Genre

 Exercise

4 Interacting: the interpersonal metafunction

4.1  Introduction

4.2  Roles of addressers and audience

4.3  Mood

 4.3.1  The structure of the Mood

 4.3.2 Identifying Subject and Finite

 4.3.3  Meanings of Subject and Finite

 4.3.4  Mood in non-declarative clauses

 4.3.5 Mood in text

 4.3.6 The Residue

 4.3.7  Modal Adjuncts

4.4 Modality

 4.4.1  Modality and polarity

 4.4.2  Types of modality

 4.4.3  Modal commitment

 4.4.4  Modal responsibility

 4.4.5 Modality in text

4.5  Appraisal

4.6  Interaction and negotiation

4.7  Interaction through text

 Exercises

5 Representing the world: the experiential metafunction

5.1  Introduction

5.2  Transitivity: processes and participants

 5.2.1  Material processes

 5.2.2  Mental processes

 5.2.3  Relational processes

 5.2.4  Verbal processes

 5.2.5  Other types of process

 5.2.6  Other participant roles

 5.2.7  Circumstances

 5.2.8 Transitivity in text

5.3  More complex aspects of transitivity

 5.3.1  More on material processes

 5.3.2  More on mental processes

 5.3.3  More on relational processes

 5.3.4  Processes in verbal group complexes

 5.3.5  Participants in causation

5.4  Transitivity patterns in text

5.5  Ergativity

Exercises

6 Organizing the message: the textual metafunction - Theme

6.1  Introduction

6.2  Theme

6.3  Identifying Theme

 6.3.1  Theme in declarative clauses

 6.3.2 Theme in non-declarative clauses

6.4  Special thematic structures

 6.4.1  Thematic equatives

 6.4.2  Predicated Theme

 6.4.3  Thematized comment

 6.4.4  Preposed Theme

 6.4.5  Passive clauses and Theme

6.5 Theme in clause complexes

6.6  Multiple Theme

 6.6.1  Conjunctions in Theme

 6.6.2  Conjunctive and modal Adjuncts in Theme

 6.6.3  Textual, interpersonal and experiential elements in Theme

 6.6.4  Interrogatives as multiple Themes

6.7  Some problems in Theme analysis

 6.7.1  Existential 'there' in Theme

 6.7.2  Theme in reported clauses

 6.7.3  Interpolations in Theme

 6.7.4  Preposed attributives

6.8  Theme in text

6.9  A final note on identifying Theme

Exercises

7   Organizing the message: the textual metafunetion - cohesion

7.1  Cohesion and coherence

7.2  Reference and ellipsis

 7.2.1  Reference

  7.2.2  Ellipsis

7.3  Conjunction

7.4  Cohesion in text

Exercise

8 Clauses in combination

8.1  Introduction

8.2  Units of analysis

8.3  Types of relations between clauses

 8.3.1  Logical dependency relations

 8.3.2  Logico-semantic relations

8.4  Expansion

 8.4.1  Elaborating

 8.4.2 Extending

 8.4.3  Enhancing

8.5  Projection

 8.5.1  Quotes and reports

 8.5.2 Facts

 8.5.3  Projection in text

Exercises

9 Grammatical metaphor

9.1  Introduction

9.2  Grammatical metaphor

9.3  Experiential and logical metaphors

9.4  Interpersonal metaphors

9.5  Textual metaphor

9.6  A cautionary note

Exercises

10 Implications and applications of functional grammar

10.1 Three-dimensional analysis of texts

10.2 A summary review of functional grammar

10.3 Using functional grammar

10.4 Closing

Answers to exercises

Further reading

References

Index