Systemic Functional Grammar Of French

Presenting an analysis of French grammar using the Hallidayan approach, this title looks at what constitutes language, and how it is used in life. This grammar has been developed as a resource for discourse analysis, and for understanding how French grammar makes meaning in different textual and contextual environments. '[The] consistent interplay between theoretical and applied pursuits has always been a defining feature of systemic functional theory...This kind of mutual enrichment is clearly demonstrated in Alice Caffarel's work. The result is a description which penetrates to the heart of the language, revealing it at one and the same time as a specimen of the human semiotic and a unique resource for the continuous creation of meaning.' Professor M A K Halliday, from the Preface.