The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics

707 Pages·2017·4.713 MB·English

by  Tom Bartlett, Gerard O'Grady

The Routledge Handbook of
Systemic Functional Linguistics
The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics brings together internationally
renowned scholars of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to provide a space for critical
examination of the key tenets underpinning SFL theory. Uniquely, it includes description
of the three main strands within contemporary SFL scholarship: Halliday’s Introduction to
Functional Grammar, Martin’s discourse semantics and Fawcett’s Cardiff Grammar.
In five sections and thirty-eight interdisciplinary chapters, this is the first handbook to
cover the whole architecture of SFL theory, comprising:
• the ontology and epistemology of SFL;
• SFL as a clause grammar;
• lexicogrammar below the clause and SFL’s approach to constituency;
• SFL’s vibrant theory of language above the clause; and
• SFL as a theory of praxis with real-world applications.
With a wide range of language examples, a comprehensive editors’ introduction and a sec-
tion on further reading, The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics is an
essential resource for all those studying and researching SFL or functional grammar.
Tom Bartlett is Reader in Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University,
UK. He is the author of Hybrid Voices and Collaborative Change (Routledge, 2012) and
Analysing Power in Language (Routledge, 2014).
Gerard O’Grady is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Language and Communication
Research at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of A Grammar of Spoken English
Discourse (2010).
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The Routledge Handbook
of Systemic Functional
Linguistics
Edited by
Tom Bartlett and Gerard O’Grady
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Names: Bartlett, Tom, 1962- editor. | O’Grady, Gerard, editor.
Title: The Routledge handbook of systemic functional linguistics / edited by
Tom Bartlett and Gerard O’Grady.
Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,
[2017] |
Series: Routledge Handbooks in linguistics | Includes bibliographical
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Identifiers: LCCN 2016028576| ISBN 9780415748407 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781315413891 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Functionalism (Linguistics)—Handbooks, manuals, etc. |
Systemic grammar—Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Contents

List of figures ix
List of tables xii
Notes on contributors xiv
Acknowledgements xxiv
1 Introduction: reading systemic functional linguistics 1
Tom Bartlett and Gerard O’Grady
PART I
A theoretical overview 9
2 The place of systemic functional linguistics as a linguistic theory
in the twenty-first century 11
John A. Bateman
3 What is a system? What is a function? A study in contrasts
and convergences 27
Elissa Asp
4 Stratum, delicacy, realisation and rank 42
Margaret Berry
5 From meaning to form in the Cardiff Model of language and its use 56
Robin P. Fawcett
PART II
At clause rank 77
6 Systemic functional linguistics and the clause:
the experiential metafunction 79
Kristin Davidse
7 The logical metafunction in systemic functional linguistics 96
David G. Butt and Jonathan J. Webster
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Contents
8 Interpersonal meaning and the clause 115
Thomas Hestbæk Andersen
9 Textual metafunction and theme: what’s ‘it’ about? 131
Gail Forey and Nicholas Sampson
10 Intonation and systemic functional linguistics: the way forward 146

Gerard O’Grady
11 Theme in the Cardiff Grammar 163
Guowen Huang
12 Transitivity in the Cardiff Grammar 178
Amy Neale
13 Theme in Spanish 194
Jorge Arús Hita
14 Mood in Japanese 213
Kazuhiro Teruya
PART III
Below the clause 231
15 The phoneme and word phonology in systemic functional linguistics 233
Paul Tench
16 Form and function in groups 251
Edward McDonald
17 The English nominal group: the centrality of the Thing element 267
Lise Fontaine
18 The adjectival group 284
Gordon Tucker
19 The verbal group 301
Beatriz Quiroz
20 The verbal group in French 319
Alice Caffarel-Cayron
21 The nominal group in Chinese 338
Eden Sum-hung Li
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Contents
22 Grammatical metaphor 354
Miriam Taverniers
PART IV
Above the clause 373
23 Context in systemic functional linguistics: towards

scalar supervenience? 375
Tom Bartlett
24 Field, tenor and mode 391
Wendy L. Bowcher
25 Cohesion in systemic functional linguistics:
a theoretical reflection 404
Ben Clarke
26 Register analysis in systemic functional linguistics 418
Alison Rotha Moore
27 Context and meaning in the Sydney architecture of
systemic functional linguistics 438
Ken Tann
28 The appraisal framework and discourse analysis 457
Teresa Oteíza
29 Systemic functional linguistics and genre studies 473
Sheena Gardner
PART V
SFL in practice: an appliable theory 489
30 Systemic functional linguistics and clinical linguistics 491
Alison Ferguson, Elizabeth Spencer and Elizabeth Armstrong
31 Language as verbal art 506
Donna R. Miller
32 Discourse analysis 520
Bob Hodge
33 Corpus and systemic functional linguistics 533
Serge Sharoff
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Contents
34 Translation studies 547
Kerstin Kunz and Elke Teich
35 Interactions between natural–language processing and
systemic functional linguistics 561
Mick O’Donnell

36 Reading images (including moving ones) 575
Chris Taylor
37 Systemic functional linguistics and language teaching 591
Anne McCabe
38 Systemic functional linguistics and code theory 605
Karl Maton and Y. J. Doran
39 Learning how to mean: parent–child interaction 619
Clare Painter
40 Looking ahead: systemic functional linguistics in
the twenty-first century 634
Gerard O’Grady and Tom Bartlett
Further reading 647
Index 667
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Figures

2.1 Points of departure for the systematic study of language, languages,
texts and their users 12
2.2 Types of discourse available for couching reflective consideration of
language and language phenomena 13
3.1 (a) A simple number system; (b) A consolidated personal pronoun system 30
5.1 The components and their outputs in a generative SFL lexicogrammar 59
5.2 The basic categories of functional syntax 62
5.3 Part of a simplified semantic system network for mood 63
5.4 The major components of a model of a communicating mind 73
7.1 Logical relations 98
7.2 Logical relations: projection 98
7.3 The systems of clause complexing 99
7.4 Logical relations in Fly Away Peter 107
7.5 The ear structured in Fibonacci proportions 111
8.1 polarity and modality 118
8.2 The system of dialogue (a): Level of social context – the ‘move’ 122
8.3 The semantic system of speech function 123
8.4 Transition, late (1;10) 123
8.5 Incipient adult (2;0): Nigel on the threshold of the adult
system of dialogue 124
9.1 Four patterns of thematic progression 135
9.2 Thematic progression: Harry’s speech 136
10.1 Chunking speech into four tone groups 149
10.2 Spectrograph of example (4) 151
10.3 Spectrograph of example (5) 151
10.4 The primary, secondary and secondary indirect tones of English 154
10.5 ToBI and SFL compared 157
11.1 Typical systems for Subject theme and marked PR theme 166
11.2 The syntactic and semantic analysis of an existential
enhanced theme construction 169
12.1 The current system network for relational Processes
in the Cardiff Grammar 185
14.1 System of mood in Japanese in the environment of a
multilingual system of mood 222
15.1 The system hierarchies of English and Etkwen 237
15.2 A simple system network syllable counts (Etkwen and English) 237
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