This book describes the discourse of biology from a systemic functional linguistic
perspective. It offers a detailed description of resources based on text analysis. The …

To understand science, students need to learn a large interconnected set of uncommon-
sense meanings. But despite decades of research, the precise nature of these meanings …

Winner of the ASFLA (Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association) MAK Halliday
Prize 2023 This book is the first comprehensive account of'body language'as' paralanguage' …

The ability to construe and to interpret cause–effect relations is critical to the task of
knowledge building in science. It is essential to understanding investigative processes and …

This paper revisits the traditional concept of lexical metaphor from the perspective of SFL
work on grammatical metaphor, exploring its interpretation as inter-stratal tension, and …

Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a usage-based theory of language, founded on the
assumption that language is shaped entirely by its various functions in the contexts in which …

This chapter demonstrates a 'top-down'approach to describing Mandarin Chinese from a
systemic functional linguistic perspective. This approach takes meaning made at the level of …

This article explores different realizations of modality meanings in Spanish written language
and their contribution to dialogic positionings in the field of the historical explanations …

This paper reports on a teaching program for the Functional Grammar (FG) unit at an English
Education Study Program of a state university in West Java Indonesia in 2020-2022. Three …

The paper examines the challenges faced by senior Biology students in reading
'nominalizations' in textbook materials and illustrates how the challenges can be addressed …