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Studies of variation of language have by and large been restricted to the level of expression. This work offers a critique of sociolinguistic, arguing that since meaning is critical to all contexts of life in society, ignoring it has led to a number of serious problems, foremost among them a mis-conception of the nature of sociolinguistics itself.

'Explorations in Functional Syntax' develops a practical framework for analysing the syntactic structure of a text from a functional perspective. It is well illustrated with examples of the descriptive framework in action throughout the text and in a summary end chapter.

Whether prose or poetry, how does a text come to mean what it does? A functional-semantic approach to text analysis, such as is illustrated in this book, offers a revealing look at the resources of language at work in the creation of meaning, and a unique perspective on the text as object of study.