《功能语法教程》旨在讲授及实践国际知名语言学家韩礼德所设计的多种语法分析方法，是一部适用于教学和应用方面的工具书。本书与韩礼德所著的《功能语法入门》(Introduction to Functional Grammar)第二版和第三版相互参照。

本书总结介绍了韩礼德关于小句复合体、分句、语义组和短句语法的主要观点，阐明了普遍被视为艰深的课题，并附有一系列分级练习，供学生演练学习语法分析技巧用。此外，本书另有一章将上述语法分析同韩礼德富有创意的话语分析、语域及文体方面的研究工作相结合。本书作者詹姆斯·R·马丁为悉尼大学语言学教授。

Preface

Chapter I Introduction

 1. What is functional grammar?

 2. Why this functional grammar?

 3. Using the workbook

 4. Getting started with text analysis

 5. Constituency: functional and class units

 6. Reasoning in a functional grammar

 7. Paradigms'as system networks

 8. Choice and constituency

 9. Learning to use IFG

Chapter 2 Theme -- clause as message

 1. Orientation

1.1 Reading guide to IFG

1.2 Characterisation of Theme

1.3 Thematic development within a text

 2. Survey of options

2.1 Ideational (topical) Theme

2.2 Interpersonal Theme

2.3 Textual Theme

2.4 Summaryoftypes of Theme

2.5 Extending the thematic principle beyond the clause

 3. Troubleshooting

3.1 Picking out the unit of analysis

3.2 Identifying the Theme

3.3 Identifying the metafunction

3.4 Subject it as unmarked topical Theme

3.5 There's a...: 'Existential' clauses

3.6 RecognisingbngerThemeunits

3.7 'Hypotactic'clause as Theme

 4. Analysis practice

4.1 Phase I

4.2 Phasel[

4.3 Phase III

 5. Review and contextualisation

5.1 Defining Theme

5.2 The location of THEME within the grammatical resources of English

5.3 Theme and Metafunction

5.4 Theme and Mood

 Further reading

Chapter 3 Mood -- clause as exchange

 1. Orientation

1.1 Reading guide to IFG

1.2 Characterisation of Mood

 2. Survey of options

2.1 Basic MOOD types

2.2 Overall interpersonal organisation of the clause

2.3 Interpersonal grammatical metaphor

 3. Troubleshooting

3.1 The unit ofanalysis

3.2 Identifying structural elements

3.3 Ambiguous mood type

3.4 Ambiguous polarity

 4. Analysis practice

4.1 Phase I

4.2 Phase II

4.3 Phase III

 5. Review and contextualisation

5.1 Locating MOOD

5.2 Interpersonal slxucture

5.3 Interpersonal structure and textual structure

  Further reading

Chapter 4 Transitivity -- clause as representation

 1. Orientation

1.1 Reading guide to IFG

1.2 Characterisation Of TRANSITIVITY

 2. Survey of options

2.1 Material clauses

2.2 Mental clauses

2.3 Relational clauses

2.4 Verbal clauses

2.5 Behavioural clauses: between material and mental/verbal

2.6 Existential clauses

2.7 Additional Agents

2.8 Ergative interpretation

 3. Troubleshooting

3.1 A topology of processes

3.2 General probes helpful in analysing for TRANSITIVITY

3.3 One process or two?

3.4 Material clauses

3.5 Mental clauses

3.6 Relational clauses

3.7 Verbal clauses

3.8 Behavioural clauses

3.9 Discriminating circumstance type

3.10 Distinguishing between circumstances and other elements

 4. Analysis practice

4.1 Phase Ⅰ

4.2 Phase Ⅱ

4.3 Phase Ⅲ

 5. Review and contextualisation

5.1 The clause as experiential construct

5.2 Ergative perspective

5.3 Relation to other metafunctions

  Further reading

Chapter 5 Group and phrase -- below the clause

 1. Orientation

1.1 Reading guide to IFG

1.2 Characterisation of groups/phrases

 2. Survey of options

2.1 Nominal group

2.2 Verbal group

2.3 Other groups

2.4 Prepositional phrase

 3. Troubleshooting

3.1 Identifying groups/phrases

3.2 Assigning a function to a word in a group

3.3 Different meanings for prepositions

3.4 Assigning a function to a phrase or a clause: ranking or embedded?

 4. Analysis practice

4.1 Nominal group

4.2 Verbal group

4.3 Adverbialgroup & Prepositional phrase

 5. Review and contextualisation

5.1 Locating groups & phrases: rank and metafunction

5.2 Nominal group

5.3 Verbal group

5.4 Prepositional phrase

 Further reading

Chapter 6 The clause complex -- above the clause

 1. Orientation

1.1 Reading guide to IFG

1.2 Characterisation of clause complex

 2. Survey of options

2.1 TAXIS

2.2 Logico-semantic type

2.3 Summary of clause complex relations

 3. Troubleshooting

3.1 Procedure for analysis

3.2 Picking out the unit of analysis

3.3 Complexing vs embedding

3.4 Parataxis or hypomxis?

3.5 Identifying the logico-semantic relation

3.5 How many 'layers' to the clause complex?

3.7 Implicit clause complex relations

3.8 Projection

3.9 'Surfacing' from an embedding

 4. Analysis practice

4.1 Phase Ⅰ

4.2 Phase Ⅱ

4.3 Phase Ⅲ

 5. Review and contextualisation

5.1 Review

5.2 Relations between clauses

 Further reading

Chapter 7 Text analysis

 1. Orientation

1.1 Reading guide to IFG

1.2 Characterisation of text analysis

 2. Grammar and beyond

2.1 Theme and information flow

2.2 Clause complexingand conjunction

2.3 Transitivity and ideation

2.4 Nominal groups, ideation and identification

2.5 Periodicity and appraisal

2.6 Deixis and multimodality

 3. Text analysis cartography

References

Index