"当代国外语言学与应用语言学文库"（升级版）是主要面向高校英语专业高年级本科生、研究生及英语教师的一套
大型、开放的系列丛书。本升级版或保留原有经典图书品种，或继之以经典图书的新版，或引进国外语言学与应用
语言学领域的新锐力作以进一步拓展学科领域，希望它能继续对我国语言学教学与研究和外语教学与研究起到积极
的推动作用。

《语类关系与文化映射》是"当代国外语言学与应用语言学文库"（升级版）中的一本，本书是悉尼学派语类研究的
集大成者，读完此书，你会对各种理论观点、语类类型了如指掌。

21世纪，语类理论与应用研究已十分广泛，不仅包含传统的人文社科领域，还涵盖信息科学、人工智能等领域。《语类关系与文化映射》由悉尼学派的领军人J.R.Martin教授及其弟子David Rose博士合著，系统阐述了悉尼学派语类研究的出发点、理论框架、分析工具等理论问题，着重介绍了故事语类、历史语类、报告与解释语类、程序与程序讲述语类，并对相关的语类拓扑、语类学习路线设计、多模态语类等问题作了阐释，可谓悉尼学派语类理论的集大成之作。

Acknowledgements xxvii
Preface xxix
1 Getting going with genre 1
1.1 Back to school 1
1.2 Where did we turn? 8
1.3 Modelling context 9
1.4 Systemic functional linguistics 21
1.5 Tools for analysis:discourse semantics 30
1.6 Grammatical metaphor 38
1.7 A note on multimodality 44
1.8 This book 47
2 Stories 49
2.0 Variation in stories 49
2.1 Recount:recording personal experience 53
2.2 Anecdotes-reacting to events 56
2.3 Exemplum-interpreting incidents 62
2.4 Observations-commenting on events 65
2.5 Narratives-resolving complications 67
2.6 News stories-new kinds of stories 74
2.7 A system of story genres 81
2.8 Story phases-another perspective 82
2.9 Response genres-evaluating stories 93
3 Histories 99
3.0 From stories to histories 99
3.1 Biographical recounts-telling life histories 100
3.2 Historical recounts-recording public histories 105
3.3 Historical accounts and explanations-explaining the past 114
3.4 Expositions, discussions and challenges-debating the past 118
3.5 Packaging value-what history means 125
3.6 Typology-classifying difference 131
3.7 Topology-proximating likeness 132
4 Reports and explanations 141
4.0 Classifying and explaining 141
4.1 Reports:classifying and describing things 142
4.2 Explanations:how processes happen 150
4.3 Genres in science 166
4.4 Multimodal reports and explanations 167
5 Procedures and procedural recounts 181
5.1 Procedures:directing specialised activities 182
5.2 Procedural recounts 198
5.3 Protocol 213
5.4 Procedural systems 217
5.5 Macrogenres 218
5.6 Education and production 226
6 Keeping going with genre 231
6.1 Is genre everything? 231
6.2 Relations among genres-paradigmatic relations 235
6.3 Relations between genres-syntagmatic relations 250
6.4 Dialogue 260
Notes 262
References 267
Index 286