"Distils the major insights from six decades of research by the foremost functional linguist of our times" - J. R. Martin, Professor of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia.

[I]t provides readers with a chance to identify a specific are of the theory they wish to explore and see it discussed and illustrated several times in different contexts, using different examples from Halliday's work. This repeated exposure throughout a single chapter allows for a gradual building of knowledge on a particular concept and may assist those readers having trouble with grasping the complexities of this theory of language...the concepts and their encompassing terminology are constantly introduced and revisited across the individual chapters of the book, helping to both reinforce the key concepts of Halliday's theory and create an understanding of the interrelatedness of these different concepts...this edited volume provides an extensive exploration of the features of Halliday's theories second only in depth and coverage to the original Collected Works themselves.

Kieran A File, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, Discourse Studies