(prepared
primarily for students at the
Links
to websites of relevance for Systemic Functional Grammar
- Here is how systemic
functional theory is characterized by its founder, Michael
Halliday.
- Read the entry for Michael Halliday in Wikipedia.
- Systemic-Functional
Linguistics Information Site, maintained by Mick O’Donnell is a major
locus of information on SFL and links to other sites.
- The Meaning Modelling Lab at
Christian Matthiessen's
glossary of systemic functional
terms is
extremely useful.- An introduction to systemic
functional theory by Christian Matthiessen and M.A.K.
Halliday
- If you want to read about Appraisal
Theory (an extension of research on the interpersonal function), click
here.
- An overview of the three
metafunctions
- from a course in grammar and literary stylistics at the
- An introduction to SFG for teachers,
designed by Alan Hess.
- The Halliday Centre
at
- The Nordic
Society for Systemic-Functional Linguistics (in Scandinavian)
SFL-courses taught at the
ENG2151/4151
Systemic Functional Grammar - Introduction http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/ilos/ENG2151/ / http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/ilos/ENG4151
(2011 II)
Main textbook: Geoff Thompson: Introducing
Functional Grammar.
ENG4115 Texture and Linguistic Structure (Last
taught 2010 II)
Other
online resources
- Michael Halliday giving a lecture called “Language
evolving: Some systemic functional reflections on the history of meaning”
- Donna Miller 2004 Language as Purposeful:
functional varieties of texts, (Functional Grammar Studies for Non-Native Speakers of English). Quaderni del Centro di Studi Linguistico-Culturali
(CeSLiC),
Comic Relief:
Evolutionary grammar
Get-well-card
Fruit grammar