This book offers a critical examination of the standard description of tense and aspect in Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and suggests a new approach to these categories within a systemic functional framework. While SFL is developing very rapidly in its applications and in a number of theoretical derivations, many of Halliday’s basic assumptions, as well as many of hi…
Texts and Practices provides an essential introduction to the theory and practice of Critical Discourse Analysis. Using insights from this challenging new method of linguistic analysis, the contributors to this collection reveal the ways in which language can be used as a means of social control. The essays in Texts and Practices: • Demonstrate how Critical Discourse Analysis can be app…