《功能语法导论》是M.A.K.Halliday介绍功能语法理论的经典学术著作，自1985年第一版出版以来，就成为国内外许多大学讲授功能语法的基本教科书。本书是M.A.K.Halliday与Christian Matthiessen对第二版进行广泛修订后推出的第三版，与上一版相比，第三版的更新主要体现在：增加了系统网络的内容；从小句描写走向语篇分析；基于语料库的论述；理论的修订与扩展。

Preface xxxi

Part I The Clause 1

The architecture of language 3

1.1 Text and grammar 3

1.2 Phonology and grammar 11

1.3 Basic concepts for the study of language 19

1.4 The location of grammar in language; the role of the corpus 31

Towards a functional grammar 37

2.1 Towards a grammatical analysis 37

2.2 The lexico-grammar cline 43

2.3 Grammaticalization 46

2.4 Grammar and the corpus 48

2.5 Classes and functions 50

2.6 Subject, Actor, Theme 53

2.7 Three lines of meaning in the clause 58

Clause as message 64

3.1 Theme andRheme 64

3.2 Group or phrase complexes as Theme; thematic equatives 68

3.3 Theme and mood 71

3.4 Textual, interpersonal and topical Themes 79

3.5 The information unit; Given + New 87

3.6 Given + New and Theme + Rheme 93

3.7 Predicated Themes 95

3.8 Theme in bound, minor and elliptical clauses 98

3.9 Thematic interpretation of a text 100

Clause as exchange 106

4.1 The nature of dialogue 106

4.2 The Mood element 111

4.3 Other elements of Mood structure 121

4.4 MOOD as system; further options 134

4.5 Polarity and modality 143

4.6 Absence of elements of the modal structure 151

4.7 Clause as Subject 154

4.8 Texts 158

5 Clause as representation 168

5.1 Modelling experience of change 168

5.2 Material clauses: processes of doing-and-happening 179

5.3 Mental clauses: processes of sensing 197

5.4 Relational clauses: processes of being and having 210

5.5 Other process types: summary of process types 248

5.6 Circumstantial elements 259

5.7 Transitivity and voice: another interpretation 280

5.8 Text illustrations 303

Part II Above, Below and Beyond the Clause 307

Below the clause: groups and phrases 309

6.1 Groups and phrases 309

6.2 Nominal group 311

6.3 Verbal group 335

6.4 Adverbial group, conjunction group, preposition group 354

6.5 Prepositional phrase 359

6.6 Word classes and group functions 361

Above the clause: the clause complex 363

7.1 The notion of 'clause complex' 363

7.2 Types of relationship between clauses 373

7.3 TAXIS: parataxis and hypotaxis 383

7.4 Elaborating, extending, enhancing: three kinds of expansion 395

7.5 Reports, ideas and facts: three kinds of projection 441

7.6 Clause complex and tone 482

7.7 Texts 484

Group and phrase complexes 486

8.1 Overview of complexing at group or phrase rank 486

8.2 Parataxis: groups and phrases 489

8.3 Hypotaxis: nominal group 493

8.4 Hypotaxis: adverbial group or prepositional phrase 495

8.5 Hypotaxis: verbal group, expansion (1): general 497

8.6 Hypotaxis: verbal group, expansion (2): passives 505

8.7 Hypotaxis: verbal group, expansion (3): causative 509

8.8 Hypotaxis: verbal group, projection 515

8.9 Logical organization: complexes at clause and group or phrase rank, and groups 521

Around the dause: cohesion and discourse 524

9.1 The concept of text; logogenetic patterns 524

9.2 The lexicogrammatical resources of COHESION 532

9.3 Conjunction 538

9.4 Reference 549

9.5 Ellipsis and substitution 561

9.6 Lexical cohesion 570

9.7 The creation of texture 579

10 Beyond the clause: metaphorical modes of expression 586

10.1 Lexicogrammar and semantics 586

10.2 Semantic domains 593

10.3 Modality 613

10.4 Interpersonal metaphor: metaphors of mood 626

10.5 Ideational metaphors 636

References 659

lndex  667