马丁教授是当今国际系统功能语言学领域的核心人物之一，他对系统功能语言学的贡献。本文集收录的是马丁博士自20世纪80年代至今发表的14篇关于语篇语义研究的论文。内容涉及：英语语篇中的连续和判断、英语语言的评价系统、衔接与语篇性、跨越小句的意义等。

本书为《马丁文集》第2卷，收录马丁自20世纪80年代至今发表的14篇关于语篇语义研究的论文。马丁在韩礼德思想的基础上，重点发展了语篇语义层的语言学理论，认为构成该层面的是评价系统、协商系统和参与系统。如果说韩礼德研究的重点是词汇语法层，那么马丁开拓的则是语篇语义层。本书内容主要有：言语行为、英语语篇中的连续和判断、英语语言的评价系统、衔接与语篇性、跨越小句的意义、评价的组篇功能、作为态度发生器的级差系统等。

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Acknowledgements

The Art of Referring: The Speaker's Use of Noun Phrases to Instruct the Listener (with S. R. Rochester) (1977)

How Many Speech Acts? (1981)

Conjunction: The Logic of English Text (1983)

Theme, Method of Development and Existentiality: the Price of Reply (1992)

Reading Positions/Positioning Readers:Judgment in English (1995)

Sin and Grace: Naught for Noughts? (2000)

Beyond Exchange: Appraisal Systems in English (2000)

Factoring out Exchange: Types of Structure (2000)

Cohesion and Texture (2001)

Fair Trade: Negotiating Meaning in Multimodal Texts (2001)

Meaning Beyond the Clause: SFL Perspectives (2002)

Sense and Sensibility: Texturing Evaluation (2004)

Invoking Attitude: The Play of Graduation in Appraising Discourse (with Susan Hood) (2007)

Incongruent and Proud: De-vilifying "Nominalisation" (2008)

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