Matters Arising Within Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory And Its Community Of Users
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Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Why "Meta"function?
Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 528):
The concept of metafunction is “meta” in the sense that it refers not to functions of individual utterances — functions of the instance — but to functional components of the system of language.
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