Hi Jack in Tokyo
I was so happy to find your posts. I am doing my very first course of my MA right now and I am trying to get my head around Halliday's Functional Grammar. From what I understand, his theories are concerned with what language does and how it's done and also how the whole social context constrains language (a bit Whorf-ian for me!). But I would love to discuss this with someone who obviously has a more in depth knowledge of it. I'd love to get an overview of Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar from you if at all possible :) As I plough through these academic texts I get more and more confused. I was going to PM you but as I have just joined this forum, I can't.
Here's hoping to some more info on SFG before I pull all of my greying hair out!
M