This edition incorporates several important developments within systemic linguistics, including a new chapter on the logical relations of the clause complex, and discussion of the application of systemic linguistics to the analysis of multi-modal texts.
Contents from previous edition:
1. An Overview of the Systemic Functional Linguistic Approach
2. Context of Culture: Genre
3. Context of Situation: Register
4. Discourse-Semantics: Cohesion in Text
5. Introduction to the Lexico-Grammar
6. The Grammar of Interpersonal Meaning: Mood
7. Systems : Meaning as Choice
8. The Grammar of Experiential Meaning: Transitivity
9. The Grammar of Textual Meaning: Theme
10. Explaining Text: Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics
Appendix: Analyses of the Crying Baby Texts.
