Deploying Functional Grammar is a workbook designed to teach and practise a wide range of grammatical analyses designed by M. A. K. Halliday. It cross-references both the second and third editions of his Introduction to Functional Grammar.
The workbook contains summaries of Halliday's main points in relation to the grammar of clause complexes, clauses, groups and phrases. It includes clarifications of topics known to cause difficulties and a wide range of graded exercises designed to build students' skills in grammatical analysis. In addition there is a chapter relating these grammatical analyses to Halliday inspired work on discourse analysis, register and genre.
Ideal for anyone who has an interest in the functional linguistic analysis of texts and who wishes to deploy the insights of Halliday's grammar, it can be used alone to support a course in functional grammar or in conjunction with Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar or related introductions. While assuming no prior knowledge of functional grammar, it caters not only for the novice but for readers of varying degrees of linguistic expertise and familiarity with Halliday's work.
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To be clear, while purporting to be teaching Halliday's theory, the authors frequently present claims that are inconsistent with Halliday's theory, especially in the areas of behavioural and verbal clauses, nominal groups and verbal groups, where they appear to have their own agenda. Moreover the "Halliday inspired" work on discourse analysis, register and genre is Martin's work only, and wildly inconsistent with Halliday's theory, both in terms of its general architecture and at the level of fine detail, as demonstrated at Martin's Discourse Semantics, Register And Genre.
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