Sunday 1 January 2017

Praise For The Cardiff Grammar

Fawcett (2010: xxvi):
But the major landmark was Butler's impressive 2003 survey of the three current "structural-functional" theories of language that he considers most valuable, one of which is SFL. And, significantly, in many sections he provides separate accounts of the proposals of the Sydney and the Cardiff versions of SFL. Then, in his "final assessment", he states: 
In my view the Cardiff model represents a substantial improvement on the Sydney account. [...] There can be no doubt that SFG has lived up to its claim to be a text-oriented theory of language; [...] it has achieved a much wider coverage of English grammar than other approaches, this being especially true of the Cardiff grammar.' (Butler 2003b: 471)

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