Foreword Acknowledgments 1 The purposes of linguistic analysis 2 Recognizing clauses and clause constituents 3 An overview of functional grammar 4 Interacting: the interpersonal metafunction 5 Representing the world: the experiential metafunction 6 Organizing the message: the textual metafunction - Theme 7 Organizing the message: the textual metafunction - cohesion 8 Clauses in combination 9 Grammatical metaphor 10 Implications and applications of functional grammar Answers to exercises Further reading References Index