Studies in English Language Volume 7

?Getting under the skin of a language? is an intriguing new work appearing in the seventh volume in this Collected Works of Professor M. A. K. Halliday, Studies in English Language. Topics covered in the papers from the section on ?Theoretical foundations? include transitivity, theme-rheme, mood, and modality in English. Other sections include papers on English intonation and grammar including discussion of word order in English and the complex structures typical of informal spontaneous conversation. The grammatical analysis of English also serve to demonstrate the application of linguistics to language teaching.

Preface

vii

Acknowledgements

x

Introduction: Towards an Appliable Description of the Grammar of a Language

xii

PART ONE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS

1

(204)

Editor's Introduction

3

(202)

1 Notes on Transitivity and Theme in English — Part 1

5

(50)

2 Notes on Transitivity and Theme in English — Part 2

55

(55)

3 Notes on Transitivity and Theme in English — Part 3

110

(44)

4 Options and Functions in the English Clause

154

(10)

5 Functional Diversity in Language, as Seen From a Consideration of Modality and Mood in English

164

(41)

PART TWO SPECIAL TOPICS

205

(28)

Editor's Introduction

207

(26)

6 On Being Teaching

209

(4)

7 It's a Fixed Word Order Language is English

213

(20)

PART THREE INTONATION AND GRAMMAR

233

(60)

Editor's Introduction

235

(52)

8 The Tones of English

237

(27)

9 Intonation in English Grammar

264

(23)

10 English Intonation as a Resource for Discourse

287

(6)

PART FOUR ANALYSES

293

(45)

Editor's Introduction

295

(2)

11 'The Teacher Taught the Student English': An Essay in Applied Linguistics

297

(9)

12 On the Grammar of Pain

306

(32)

Bibliography

338

(8)

Index

346

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