This text aims to examine the nature of text and context, using theoretical models based in the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL).

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

This volume addresses the increasingly typical nature of text and discourse: 'hybridity'. In an SFL perspective, this means that the cultural and situational co

This book introduces the notion of system as the foundation of the systemic functional architecture of language.