Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction to functional grammatical analysis
- Chapter 2 The units of language analysis
- Chapter 3 The grammar of things: the nominal group
- Chapter 4 Representing experience
- Chapter 5 Orienting language
- Chapter 6 Organizing language
- Chapter 7 From text to clause
- Chapter 8 Guidelines for grammatical analysis
- Chapter 9 There and back again: interpreting the analysis
- Chapter 10 Answers to exercises
- Notes
- References
- Index
Chapter 1 - Introduction to functional grammatical analysis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction to functional grammatical analysis
- Chapter 2 The units of language analysis
- Chapter 3 The grammar of things: the nominal group
- Chapter 4 Representing experience
- Chapter 5 Orienting language
- Chapter 6 Organizing language
- Chapter 7 From text to clause
- Chapter 8 Guidelines for grammatical analysis
- Chapter 9 There and back again: interpreting the analysis
- Chapter 10 Answers to exercises
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
INTRODUCTION
People are interested in language and in understanding how we think language works for lots of different reasons. Becoming more knowledgeable about language often means having to learn something about grammatical analysis whether it is to teach children language skills, to work with those who have some kind of language difficulty or impairment, to teach a foreign language, or to master a command of a given language for a particular agenda such as speech writing or media communication. Understanding how language works means understanding how grammar works.
Grammar may seem like a very mysterious thing to many people. To use language, and even to use it well, we don’t really need to have an explicit understanding of it. However, if we want to work with language we need a way to talk about it and we need a way to identify the bits and pieces that it involves so that we can work with it more masterfully and more professionally.
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- Analysing English GrammarA Systemic Functional Introduction, pp. 1 - 15Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012