1. The purposes of linguistic analysis
1.1 Starting points
1.2 Language, context and function: a preliminary exploration
2. Identifying clauses and clause constituents
2.1 Breaking up the sentence and labelling the parts
2.2 Ranks
3. An overview of Functional Grammar
3.1 Three kinds of meaning
3.2 Register and genre
4. Interacting: the interpersonal metafunction
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Roles of addressers and audience
4.3 Mood
4.4 Modality
4.5 Appraisal
4.6 Interaction and negotiation
4.7 Interaction through text
5. Representing the world: the experiential metafunction
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Transitivity: processes and participants
5.3 More complex aspects of transitivity
5.4 Transitivity patterns in text
5.5 Ergativity
6. Organizing the message: the textual metafunction - Theme
6.1 Introduction: making messages fit together
6.2 Theme
6.3 Identifying Theme
6.6 Multiple Theme
6.7 Some issues in Theme analysis
6.8 Theme in text
6.9 A final note on identifying Theme
7. Clauses in combination
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Units of analysis
7.3 Types of relations between clauses
7.4 Expansion
7.5 Projection
7.6 Clause complexing
8. Organizing the message: the textual metafunction -cohesion
8.1 Cohesion and coherence
8.2 Reference and ellipsis
8.3 Conjunction
8.4 Cohesion and register
9. Grammatical metaphor
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Grammatical metaphor
9.3 Experiential and logical metaphors
9.4 Interpersonal metaphors
9.5 Textual metaphor
9.6 A cautionary note
10. Implications and applications of Functional Grammar
10.1 Three-dimensional analysis of texts
10.2 A summary review of Functional Grammar
10.3 Using Functional Grammar
10.4 Closing.
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Introducing functional grammar by Geoff Thompson. ISBN 9781444152678. Published by Routledge in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
