The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics brings together internationally renowned scholars of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to provide a space for critical examination of the key tenets underpinning SFL theory. Uniquely, it includes description of the three main strands within contemporary SFL scholarship: Halliday-s Introduction to Functional Grammar, Martin-s discourse semantics and Fawcett-s Cardiff Grammar.

In five sections and thirty-eight interdisciplinary chapters, this is the first handbook to cover the whole architecture of SFL theory, comprising:

• the ontology and epistemology of SFL;











• SFL as a clause grammar;











• lexicogrammar below the clause, and SFL-s approach to constituency;











• SFL-s v