Written in an innovative, easy-to-follow, practical series, Making Sense of Language, introducing students and teachers to systemic-functional grammar. Also contains exercises.
This volume explores whole texts with reference to lexicogrammar, and how genre, field, tenor, mode and ideology contribute to our understanding of spoken and written texts. Readers will learn how to apply the grammar to contrasting texts through the author`s analysis of a range of authentic material from a variety of contexts. Although this title builds on Volume 1, which deals with clause-level grammar, readers new to this kind of grammatical explanation can still use this volume as an introduction to systematic-functional grammar.