The Functional Analysis of English is an introduction to the analysis and description of
English, based on the principles of systemic functional linguistics. It sets out the tools and …

The paper reviews a substantial part of the research on linguistic politeness, with the
objective to evaluate current politeness theories and to outline directions for future …

This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers
an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of …

Grammatical Complexity in Academic English uses corpus-based analyses to challenge a
number of dominant stereotypes and assumptions within linguistics. Biber and Gray tackle …

" This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the
methodological techniques used to analyze them. Three analytical approaches are …

This book provides an introduction to the aims, theories and practices of critical discourse
analysis (CDA). It is mainly concerned with the linguistic aspects of CDA. It provides an …

Epistemic practices are the socially organized and interactionally accomplished ways that
members of a group propose, communicate, assess, and legitimize knowledge claims …

Examining features of stance in a corpus of research articles, this chapter suggests that
choices of rhetorical strategy depend on relations between participants, and that the writer's …

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 …

The impetus for this book grew out of work on narrative genres, principally undertaken by
Guenter Plum and Joan Rothery at the University of Sydney through the 1980s. Their point …