This book develops a systematic model for the analysis and description of casual conversation in English, based on a large body of authentic data.

We spend much of our days talking. Yet we know little about the conversational engine that drives our everyday lives. We are pushed and pulled around by languag

Introduction to systemic functional linguistics explores the social semiotic approach to language most closely associated with the work of Michael Halliday and

Written in readable, vivid, non-technical prose, this book, first published in 2007, presents the highly respected scholarly research that forms the foundation

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