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Hi John, I read all replies in your post and I, like you, found Sally's replies most helpful. I'm not actually studying SFL so I'm not so keen on it. I just want to get some ideas about what it is and what it can do for me. But so far I see no hope for further investigation. I think I'll quit. Well,...

That's much too... Books written by Halliday himself must be more impossible?

hi Geordie,
The book is written by Geoff Thompson, Introducing Funcional Grammar, published by Edward Arnold. You may check if you are interested. But I dont actually think it is an INTRODUCTORY one, it's not simpler at all. Maybe another egg-head one for you.

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hi Geordie, I'm a graduate student in China. I'm studying stylistics, a branch of linguistics. We have no courses on SFL, but I did some readings on it. I found it very difficult at the beginning, but as i read on, things were getting better and i did learn from the theory. But I think the book I re...