Lecture 8.pptVIP

Lecture 8 Functional Structures in Communication  What is functional grammar? Functional grammar looks at how language works in terms of the functional relationships of its constituent parts, and the systems of CHOICES which we make whenever we use language. The term functional is used because it describes the approach which sees grammatical categories in terms of their communicative functions. Halliday and Hasan Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (born 1925) is a linguist who developed an internationally influential grammar model, the systemic functional grammar, originally by s