In Other Words has been the definitive coursebook for students studying translation for
nearly three decades. Assuming no knowledge of foreign languages, it offers a practical …

How to transfer the semantic information in a sentence to a computable numerical
embedding form is a fundamental problem in natural language processing. An informative …

Fully updated and revised, this fourth edition of Halliday's Introduction to Functional
Grammar explains the principles of systemic functional grammar, enabling the reader to …

Introducing Functional Grammar, third edition, provides a user-friendly overview of the
theoretical and practical aspects of the systemic functional grammar (SFG) model. No prior …

New edition of a best-selling introduction to systemic functional linguistics explores the
social semiotic approach to language most closely associated with the work of Michael …

In this book I have attempted to document the stage my work has reached since I first
became interested in discourse analysis in 1968. I was a first year student at the time, in …

Abstract Rhetorical Structure Theory is a descriptive theory of a major aspect of the
organization of natural text. It is a linguistically useful methodfor describing natural texts …

This book is about how language is used in the context of schooling. It demonstrates that the
variety of English expected at school differs from the interactional language that students …

This book is about the use of language in the science classroom. It discusses the evolution
of scientific discourse for learning in secondary schools, and examines the form and function …

The material in this book reviews work dating back to the vocabulary control movement in
the 1930s and also refers to more recent work on the role of lexis in language learning. Two …