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Foreword; acknowledgements; the purpose of linguistic analysis -starting points, language, context and function - a preliminaryexploration, exercises; identifying clauses and clause constituents -breaking up the sentence - and labelling the parts, ranks, exercises;an overview of functional grammar - three kinds of meaning, registerand genre; interaction in the clause - the interpersonal meta-function- introduction, roles of addressers and audience, mood, modality,evaluation, interaction and negotiation, interaction in text,exercises; representing the world - the experiental metafunction -introduction, transitivity, ergativity, exercises; organising themessage - the textual metafunction - theme - introduction, theme,identifying theme, thematising structures, theme in clause complexes,multiple theme, some problems in theme analysis, theme in text,exercises; organising the message - the textual meta-function -cohesion, cohesion and coherence, reference and ellipsis, conjunction,cohesion in text, exercise; gram-matical metaphor - introduction,experiental and logical metaphors, interpersonal metaphors, textualmetaphors, a cautionary note, exercises; groups and phrases - groups,prepositional phrases, group complexes, exercises; clauses incombination - units of analysis, types of relations be-tween clauses,expansion, projection, exercises; implications and applications offunctional grammar - three-dimensional analysis of texts, a summaryreview of functional grammar, using functional grammar, closing,further reading, answers to exercises; references; index.