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A Short Introduction to Functional Grammar Abstract The full name of Halliday's functional grammar is "systemic-functional grammar". While the systemic grammar contains a functional one, and while the theory behind functional grammar is systemic, this paper is focused on the functional part of this grammar, that is, the interpretation of the grammatical patterns in terms of configurations of functions. Besides, as the functions are particularly relevant to the analysis of text, cohesion, which is an important part in text analysis, will also be discussed. General Introduction Functional grammar is based on the spoken language, or spoken discourse. This is because the potential of the system is more richly developed, and more fully revealed in speech. The spoken language responds continually to the small but subtle changes in its environment, both verbal and non-verbal, and in so doing exhibits a rich pattern of semantic, hence also of grammatical, variation that does not get explored...

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