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Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
[Handbook of Pragmatics M2] 2022
► pp. 1364–1370

Systemic functional grammar

Article outline
  • 1.A brief historical sketch
  • 2.Characteristics of systemic functional grammar
    • 2.1Language as meaningful choice in social contexts
    • 2.2The interpretation of function in SFG
    • 2.3The proposed relationship between metafunction and register
    • 2.4The central importance of text: Cohesion and discourse/text structure in SFG
    • 2.5Systemic functional grammar and pragmatics
  • 3.Criteria of adequacy in SFG
  • References
Published online: 3 October 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.m2.sys1
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