1 - Systemic Functional Grammar
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 June 2023
Summary
Chapter 1 presents the purpose of the book – i.e. describing how a text-based description of three world languages can be developed. The Systemic Functional Linguistic theory informing these descpriptons is introduced, including modellng of context and discourse semantics,and the basic theoretical parameters of metafunciton, rank and stratification.The nature argumentation in relation to grammar description is outlined.
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- Systemic Functional GrammarA Text-Based Description of English, Spanish and Chinese, pp. 1 - 34Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023