A guide to researching systemic functional linguistics. Suitable for students and researchers of systemic functional linguistics, it includes a comprehensive introduction to methodology and issues; definitions of key terms; outlines of research areas; and, a bibliography of key readings.

1. Introduction, Jonathan Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); 2. Ideas & new directions, Christian Matthiessen (Macquarie University, Australia); 3. Methods, techniques, problems, M. A. K. Halliday; 4. Language development, Clare Painter (University of New South Wales, Australia); 5. Language and other primate species, James Benson (York University, Canada) & Paul Thibault (Agder University College, Kristiansand, Norway). 6. Linguistics Computing, Elke Teich (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany); 7. Corpus-based research, Wu Canzhong; 8. Clinical applications, Elizabeth Armstrong; 9. Discourse studies, Jim Martin (University of Sydney, Australia); 10. The place of context in a systemic functional model, Ruqaiya Hasan; 11. Stylistic analysis, Annabelle Lukin (Macquarie University, Australia) & David Butt (Macquarie University, Australia); 12. Resources and courses, Mick O'Donnell (University Autonoma de Madrid, Spain); 13. Keywords; Bibliography; Index.

"This volume brings together twelve contributions from leading figures working in ‘the IFG tradition' within Systemic Functional Linguistics. Each provides an overview of one aspect of recent thinking in this version of SFL, with its strongly social and cultural orientation. For readers who are looking for a one-volume summary that gives the authentic flavour of this significant body of work, I warmly recommend this book." -Robin P Fawcett, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Cardiff University, UK.