ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents an overview of the concepts discussed in this book. This book uses textual analysis as a way of illustrating the various points that wished to make. This may give the impression that Systemic Functional Linguistics is basically a framework for analysing texts. It shows how the structural elements of French function together, to constitute the basic forms through which encode meaning. The chapter presents how the meaning itself functions in three different ways: ideational, to describe the world around and within us; interpersonal, to express our attitudes to what people say and to those communicate with; and textual, to order our discourse into meaningful communication. It explores that how the immediate environment can be seen in terms of field, tenor, and mode and looks at how language can be manipulated with grammatical metaphor, and how the interpersonal meta-function can be extended with Appraisal Theory.
