The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics

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Geoff Thompson (19472015) was an Honorary Senior Fellow of the University of Liverpool. He has published many journal articles chapters and edited volumes including Evaluation in Context (2014 with L. Alba Juez); Text-Type and Texture (2008 with G. Forey) and System and Corpus: Exploring Connections (2005 with Susan Hunston). Wendy L. Bowcher is Professor and Director of the Functional Linguistics Institute Sun Yat-sen University China. Her publications include Society in Language: Language in Society: Essays in Honour of Ruqaiya Hasan (2015 with J. Y. Liang) Systemic Phonology: Recent Studies in English (2014 with B. A. Smith) and Multimodal Texts from Around the World: Cultural and Linguistic Insights (2012). Lise Fontaine is Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University. She has published countless articles chapters and books including Referring in Language: An Integrated Approach (Cambridge forthcoming) Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics (2018) and Analysing English Grammar: A Systemic Functional Introduction (Cambridge 2012). David Schönthal is a Research Associate at Cardiff University working with Professor A. Wray on linguistic perspectives on dementia. His main research interests are different approaches to grammar the meaning of words and the implementation of a multimethod approach. He is co-author of Referring in Language: An integrated approach (Cambridge forthcoming).