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Introduction:The London School generally refers to the kind of linguistic scholarship in England, a country that has both an unusually in linguistics and peculiar features in modern linguistics. And there is a famous scholar representing the London School’s linguistic points, named J.R.Firth, and he was the first professor of General Linguistics in Great Britain. J.R.Firth was influenced by the anthropologist B.Malinowski. In turn, he influenced his students, the well-known linguist M.A.K.Halliday. The three men all stressed the importance of context of situation and the system aspect of language. Thus, london school is also known as systemic linguistics and functional linguistics. 摘要：Compared to other schools of modern linguistics, the London School, founded by J. R. Firth, is more interested in instrumentality of language and meaning or function in context. Influenced by Malinowskis theorizing, Firth and his followers stress the functioning of language and argue that language cannot be disassociated from meaning and should be looked at from a sociological perspective. The London School and the systemic functional grammar, which has developed out of the London approach to language, consider meaning and function as the basis of human language and communicative activity. The linguistic theorizing in the London style is of practical significance and therefore is more relevant to sociolinguistics, stylistics, literary criticism and language teaching. From the linguistic ideas of a few important figures of the London School, we may see the developmental stages this School has gone through and how the tradition has been established for the academic discipline of linguistics in Britain. 1 background of The london school: The london school is one of the important modern linguistics schools. It was founded in england, a country in which certain aspects of linguistics have an unusually long history, by john rupert firth (1890-1960), the first general linguistics anthropolo