Books
Halliday, M.A.K. & Christian Matthiessen: An Introduction to Functional Grammar , 2004. London: Arnold. 3rd ed., Chapters 3 and 9.
Martin, Jim R. & David Rose: Working with Discourse. Meaning beyond the Clause, 2003. London/New York: Continuum. Chapters 4, 6 and 7 (pp 110-144 and 175-241).
Articles in Compendium: (Available from Kopiutsalget, Akademika, at the beginning of term)
- Altenberg, Bengt. 2002. Concessive connectors in English and Swedish. In Hilde Hasselg?rd et al (eds.) Information Structure in Cross-linguistic Perspective. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 21-44.
- Berry, Margaret. 1995. Thematic options and success in writing. In Ghadessy, Mohsen (ed.) Thematic Development in English Texts. London: Pinter, 55–84.
- Chafe, Wallace. 1987. Cognitive constraints on information flow. In Tomlin, Russel. (ed.). 1987. Coherence and Grounding in Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 21–52.
- Chafe, Wallace. 1992. The flow of ideas in a sample of written language. In Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.) Discourse Description: Diverse Linguistic Analyses of a Fund-Raising Text. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 267–295.
- Coates, Jennifer. 1995. The negotiating of coherence in face-to-face conversation. In Morton, Ann Gernsbacher and Talmy Givón (eds.) 1995. Coherence in Spontaneous Text, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 41–58.
- Coffin, Caroline, Barbara Mayor. 2004. Texturing writer and reader reference in novice academic writing. In Banks, David (ed.) Text and Texture. Paris: L’Harmattan, 239-264.
- Crompton, Peter. 2004. Theme in discourse: ‘Thematic progression’ and’ method of development’ re-evaluated. Functions of Language 11:2, 213-249.
- Dane?, Franti?ek. 1974. Functional Sentence Perspective and the organization of the text. In Dane?, Franti?ek (ed.) Papers on Functional Sentence Persepctive. Prague: Academia, 106–128.
- Enkvist, Nils Erik. 1987. Text strategies: single, dual, multiple. In Steele, R., T. Threadgold (eds.), Language Topics. Essays in Honour of Michael Halliday. Vol. II. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 203–211.
- Francis, Gill. 1994. Labelling discourse: an aspect of nominal-group lexical cohesion. In Coulthard, Malcolm (ed.) 1994. Advances in Written Text Analysis. London: Routledge, 83–101.
- Fries, Peter H. 2004. What makes a text coherent? In Banks, David (ed.) Text and Texture. Paris: L’Harmattan, 9-50.
- Halliday, M.A.K. 1992. Some lexicogrammatical features of the Zero Population Growth text. In Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson (eds) Discourse Description: Diverse Linguistic Analyses of a Fund-Raising Text. Amsterdam: John Benjamins publishing company, 327–358.
- Halliday, M.A.K. 1993. Some grammatical problems in scientific English. In M.A.K. Halliday and Jim Martin. Writing Science. University of Pittsburgh Press, 69–85.
- Halliday, M.A.K and Christian Matthiessen. 1999. Grammatical metaphor. Chapter 6 in Halliday & Matthiessen: Construing Experience through Meaning. London/New York: Continuum, 226-278.
- Hasan, Ruqaiya. 1985. The texture of a text. In M.A.K. Halliday and R. Hasan. Language, Context, and Text: Aspects of language in a social-semiotic perspective. Geelong: Deakin University Press, 70–96.
- McCabe, Anne. Thematic progression patterns and text types in history textbooks. In Banks, David (ed.) Text and Texture. Paris: L’Harmattan, 215-237.
- North, Sarah. 2005. Disciplinary variation in the use of Theme in undergraduate essays. Applied Linguistics 26(3), 431-452.
- Prince, Ellen F. 1981. Toward a taxonomy of given–new information. In Cole, Peter (ed.), Radical Pragmatics. New York: Academic Press, 223–255.
- Prince, Ellen F. 1992. The ZPG letter: Subjects, definiteness, and information-status. In Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson (eds) Discourse Description: Diverse Linguistic Analyses of a Fund-Raising Text. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 295–326.
- Thompson, Susan. 1994. Aspects of cohesion in monologue. Applied Linguistics Vol 15(1), 58–75.
- Vande Kopple, William J. 1986. Given and new information and some aspects of the structures, semantics, and pragmatics of written texts. In Cooper, Charles R. and Sidney Greenbaum (eds.), Studying Writing, Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 72–111.
Secondary reading:
- Biber, Douglas, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, Edward Finegan. 1999. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London: Longman. Chapter 11 (Word order and related syntactic choices), 895-964.
- Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum. 2002. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ch 16. Information packaging.
- Jespersen, Otto. 1949. A Modern English Grammar, Vol. VII. Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard. Chapter II (Sentence Structure and Word-Order), 53-107.
- Quirk, Randolph, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik, 1985. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. Chapter 18, 1355-1418.
It is recommended that students obtain their own copies of Martin & Rose 2003 Working with Discourse and Halliday & Matthiessen 2004 An Introduction to Functional Grammar. Other items will be provided in a compendium.