It goes without saying that Michael Halliday is the most extravagant grammarian of his generation, elaborating his descriptions of English and Chinese above and beyond the call of duty. And alongside this descriptive largesse, Halliday also ranks as one of the most extroverted linguists of the 20th century - continually enriching the gaze of his discipline in the manner of Saussure, Sapir, Whorf, Hjelmslev and like-minded seers. In my experience, the key concept which has operationalised this extroversion is grammatical metaphor, which makes this volume a timely one as a new generation of functional linguists recontextualises linguistics for a new millennium.

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Preface

 J R. Martin

Grammatical metaphor in SFL: A historiography of the introductiorl

  and initial study of the concept

 Miriam Taverniers

Part I: Grammatical metaphor: Clarification and application

Renewal of connection: Integrating theory and practice in

 an understanding of grammatical metaphor

 Louise J. Ravelli

Nominalization as grammatical metaphor: On the need for a radically

 systemic and metafunctional approach

 Liesbet,Heyvaert

Ambiguity in grammatical metaphor: One more reason why

 the distinction transitive/ergative pays off

 Jorge Arvs Hita

The evolution of grammatical metaphor in scientific writing

 David Banks

Part Ih Development of metaphor in children

The use of a metaphorical mode of meaning in early

 language development

 Claire Painter

The emergence of grammatical metaphor: Literacy-oriented expressions

 in the everyday speech of young children

 Jane Tort and Alyson Simpson

Grammatical metaphor in the transition to adolescence

 Beverly Derewianka

Part III: Interpersonal metaphor: Enactment and positioning

Lexical metaphor and interpersonal meaning

 Anne-Marie Simon- Vandenbergen

The elided participant: Presenting an uncommonsense view of the

 researcher's role

 Geoff Thompson

Imperative readings of grammatical metaphor: A study of congruency

 in the imperative

 Inger Lassen

Part IV: 'Metaphor' in grammar and in other modes of meaning

Phonological metaphor

 Robert Veltman

Intersemiosis in mathematics and science: Grammatical metaphor

 and semiotic metaphor

 Kay 0 'Halloran

Part V: Metaphor in metalinguistic perspectives

The conduit metaphor and the analysis of meaning: Peircean semiotics,

 cognitive grammar and systemic functional grammar

 Patrick Goethals

Grammatical metaphor as a cognitive construct

 Randal Holme

'Having things both ways': Grammatical metaphor in a systemic-functional

 model of language

 Robin Melrose

Subject index