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Designed for researchers and students interested in exploring how speakers and writers construe meaning through discourse, this book guides readers through text analyses from five complimentary perspectives on meaning, exploring ways in which: people and things are introduced and tracked though a text; messages are logically related in discourse sequences; people, things, processes and qualities are construed and related; people, things and processes are appreciated, judged and valued; all these elements of meaning are synthesised and organised in waves of information through a text.

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'The most outstanding feature of Working with Discourse is its didactic value...The deliberate aviodance of obscure terminology is to be praised...This slowly paced format, the profuse use of visual representations (especially in Chapter 3), figures, and tables, and the intelligent use of entire texts as examples of various sets of phenomena make this book a most valuable instructional material...Working with Discourse is a fine and extensive (rather than intensive or in-depth) introduction to SFL discourse analysis, which will no doubt be preferred over existing ones due to its effective sequence and integration of theory and application.'--, Discourse and Society

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J.R. Martin is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. David Rose is Research Coordinator of the Scaffolding Reading and Writing for Indigenous Children in School literacy research and teacher training project at the University of Canberra.

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