LNGS7301 - Functional Grammar

Semester 1a, 2011  |  Credit Points: 6

Coordinator: James Robert Martin
Phone: +61 2 9351 4227
Email: james.martin@sydney.edu.au

Description

This unit will focus on Halliday's functional grammar, including coverage of transitivity, mood, theme, clause-complexing and nominal group and verbal group structure (including functional structures and introductory accounts of the systems from which they derive). The unit will focus on English but include exemplification from other languages where appropriate. In addition the place of grammar in functional models of language will be considered, and critical aspects of system/structure theory introduced.

Assessments

1x4000-5000wd assignment on grammar analysis and its application to texts (100%)

Classes

2x2-hr seminar/week (Week1-6)

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