The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics

Geoff Thompson (1947–2015) was an Honorary Senior Fellow of the University of Liverpool. He has published many journal articles, chapters and edited volumes, including Evaluation in Context (2014, with L. Alba Juez); Text-Type and Texture (2008, with G. Forey) and System and Corpus: Exploring Connections (2005, with Susan Hunston). Wendy L. Bowcher is Professor and Director of the Functional Linguistics Institute, Sun Yat-sen University, China. Her publications include Society in Language: Language in Society: Essays in Honour of Ruqaiya Hasan (2015, with J. Y. Liang), Systemic Phonology: Recent Studies in English (2014, with B. A. Smith) and Multimodal Texts from Around the World: Cultural and Linguistic Insights (2012). Lise Fontaine is Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University. She has published countless articles, chapters and books including Referring in Language: An Integrated Approach (Cambridge, forthcoming), Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics (2018) and Analysing English Grammar: A Systemic Functional Introduction (Cambridge, 2012). David Schönthal is a Research Associate at Cardiff University, working with Professor A. Wray on linguistic perspectives on dementia. His main research interests are different approaches to grammar, the meaning of words, and the implementation of a multimethod approach. He is co-author of Referring in Language: An integrated approach (Cambridge, forthcoming).

Introduction Wendy L. Bowcher, Lise Fontaine and David Schönthal; Part I. SFL: The Model: 1. Firth and the origins of systemic functional linguistics: process, pragma, and polysystem David G. Butt; 2. Key concepts and the architecture of language in the SFL model Jonathan J. Webster; 3. Semantics Miriam Taverniers; 4. The clause: an overview of the lexicogrammar Margaret Berry; 5. The rooms of the house: grammar at group rank Lise Fontaine and David Schönthal; 6. Context and register Wendy L. Bowcher; 7. Intonation Wendy L. Bowcher and Meena Debashish; 8. Continuing issues in SFL Mick O'Donnell; 9. The Cardiff model of functional syntax Anke Schulz and Lise Fontaine; 10. SFL in context Christopher S. Butler; Part II. Discourse Analysis within SFL: 11. Models of discourse in systemic functional linguistics Tom Bartlett; 12. Cohesion and conjunction Maite Taboada; 13. Semantic networks Andy Fung and Francis Robert Low; 14. Discourse semantics J. R. Martin; 15. Appraisal Susan Hood; 16. SFL and diachronic studies David Banks; 17. SFL and multimodal discourse analysis Kay L. O'Halloran, Sabine Tan and Peter Wignell; 18. SFL and critical discourse analysis Gerard O'Grady; Part III. SFL in Application: 19. Language development Geoff Williams; 20. Applying SFL for understanding and fostering instructed second language development Heidi Byrnes; 21. Language and education: learning to mean Peter Mickan; 22. Systemic functional linguistics and computation: new directions, new challenges John Bateman, Daniel McDonald, Tuomo Hiippala, Daniel Couto-Vale and Eugeniu Costetchi; 23. Clinical linguistics Elissa Asp and Jessica de Villiers; 24. Language and science, language in science, and linguistics as science M. A. K. Halliday and David G. Butt; 25. Language and medicine Alison Rotha Moore; 26. Language and literature Donna R. Miller; 27. Language and social media: enacting identity through ambient affiliation Michele Zappavigna; 28. Theorizing and modeling translation Erich Steiner; 29. Language typology Abhishek Kumar Kashyap; Index.