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Introduction; 1. Developing socially responsible language research;Frances Christie and Len Unsworth; 2. Getting started with functionalanalysis of texts; Louise Ravelli; 3. Researching first language developmentin children; Clare Painter; 4. Researching second and foreign languagedevelopment; Gillian Perrett; 5. Children's Literature, children and uses oflanguage description; Geoffrey Williams; 6. Researching everyday talk;Suzanne Eggins; 7. Socio-semantic variation: different wordings, differentmeanings; Carmel Cloran; 8. The language of classroom interaction andlearning; Frances Christie; 9. Exploring reading processes; Linda Gerot; 10.Interpreting literature: the role of Appraisal; Joan Rothery and MareeStenglin; 11. Investigating subject-specific literacies in school learning;Len Unsworth; 12. Close reading: functional linguistics as a tool forcritical discourse analysis; J. R. Martin