Continuum Companion to Systemic Functional Linguistics Book

Preface M.A.K. Halliday vii

1 Introduction Jonathan J. Webster 1

2 Ideas & new directions Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen 12

3 Methods - techniques - problems M.A.K. Halliday 59

4 Language development Clare Painter 87

5 Language and other primate species James D. Benson Paul J. Thibault 104

6 Linguistic computing Elke Teich 113

7 Corpus-based research Canzhong Wu 128

8 Clinical applications Elizabeth Armstrong 143

9 Discourse studies J. R. Martin 154

10 The place of context in a systemic functional model Ruqaiya Hasan 166

11 Stylistic analysis: construing aesthetic organisation David G. Butt Annabelle Lukin 190

12 Resources and courses Mick O'Donnell 216

13 Keywords 229

References 254

Index 293