This paper presents a brief history of systemic functional linguistics (hereafter SFL), taking
Halliday's 1961 WORD paper,'Categories of the theory of grammar', as point of departure. It …

This book provides a detailed model of both the discourse and knowledge of physics and
offers insights toward developing pedagogy that improves how physics is taught and …

MAK Halliday's work has been hugely influential in linguistics and beyond since the 1960s.
This is a collection of interviews with key figures in the generation of social semioticians who …

This chapter arises from the ongoing dialogue between the systemic functional linguistics
(SFL) and Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) research communities. It revisits the register …

No theory is an island. In the case of systemic functional linguistics (SFL), its most long-
standing and intense relationship has been with code theory, a sociological framework …

In this introductory paper for this series of special issues, we review the development of
nominal group description in SFL–focusing on its syntagmatic and paradigmatic modeling …

In pursuit of democratising education outcomes, this paper analyses contexts of schooling
from the perspectives of two powerful models of social context: the model of text-‐in-‐context …

This paper explores a potential avenue of dialogue between Systemic Functional Linguistics
(SFL) and Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), namely genre. SFL's approach to …

To organize its highly technical knowledge, science consistently uses a range of different
resources for making meaning, including language, mathematics and images. This chapter …

This thesis explores the nature of knowledge in physics and the discourse that organises it.
In particular, it focuses on the affordances of mathematics, image and language for …