Publications of Geoff Thompson

(List lifted from University of Birmingham webpage for Geoff Thompson)

Books

• Thompson, Geoff. forthcoming. Conjunctive Relations in Discourse: A Tri-functional Study of Six English Registers. London: Equinox.
• Thompson, Geoff. 2014. Introducing Functional Grammar (3rd edition). London: Routledge. (2nd edition published with revised Chinese introduction in General Linguistics Series, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, China, 2008).
• Thompson, Geoff. 1995.Concordance Sampler: Reporting. Edinburgh: HarperCollins COBUILD.
• Thompson, Geoff. 1994. Reporting. Edinburgh: Collins COBUILD. (Chinese-English bilingual edition published by The Commercial Press, Hong Kong, 2000.)
• Andor, Katalin, Susan Doughty, Judit Sióréti, Nora Stráner, Liane Szentirmay, Geoff Thompson, Katalin Zentai & Erika Zoltán. 1991. Thompson's Dictionary: A Hungarian Learner's Dictionary of English. Budapest: Law and Economics Publishing House. Re-issued 2002, by Fekete-Fehér Publishing House, Budapest.
• Thompson, Susan & Geoff Thompson. 1991. Problem English (2nd edition). Budapest: Hungarian Textbook Publishing House.

Edited books and special issues

• Thompson, Geoff, Lise Fontaine, Wendy L. Bowcher & Jennifer Yameng Liang (eds), forthcoming. The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Cambridge: CUP.
• Thompson, Geoff & Laura Alba-Juez (eds). 2014. Evaluation in Context. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Thompson, Geoff (ed.). 2013. In Honour of Michael Halliday. Special Issue of Text & Talk.
• Forey, Gail & Geoff Thompson (eds). 2009. Text-Type and Texture. London: Equinox.
• Thompson, Geoff & Susan Hunston (eds). 2006. System and Corpus: exploring connections. London: Equinox.
• Scott, Michael & Geoff Thompson (eds). 2001. Patterns of Text: In honour of Michael Hoey. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Hunston, Susan & Geoff Thompson (eds). 2000. Evaluation in Text. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Peer-reviewed articles in journals

• Thompson, Geoff, 2013. Introduction. In honour of Michael Halliday. Special Issue of Text & Talk (edited by Geoff Thompson), 4-5: 425-436.
• Thompson, Geoff. 2013. Exploring patterns of conjunction in different registers: a challenge from SFL for corpus linguists. Annual Review of Functional Linguistics, 4: 7-26.
• Thompson, Geoff. 2012. Intersubjectivity in newspaper editorials: construing the reader-in-the-text. English Text Construction, 5/1: 77-100. Re-issued in Lieselotte Brems, Lobke Ghesquière & Freek Van de Velde (eds), 2014, Intersubjectivity and intersubjectification in grammar and discourse: Theoretical and descriptive advances, Benjamins Current Topics Volume 65, 77-100. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Kim Chul-Kyu & Geoff Thompson. 2010. Obligation and reader-involvement in English and Korean science popularizations: A corpus-based cross-cultural text analysis. Text & Talk, 30/1: 53-73.
• Thompson, Geoff. 2008. Appraising glances: evaluating Martin’s model of appraisal. WORD 59/1-2: 169-187.
• Thompson, Geoff. 2005. But me some buts: a multi-dimensional view of conjunction. Text 25/6: 763- 791.
• Thompson, Geoff & Heloisa Collins. 2001. An interview with Michael Halliday. Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada (DELTA), 17/1: 131-153. Reprinted as Chapter 10 in J. R. Martin (ed.), 2013, Interviews with M. A. K. Halliday: Language turned back on himself, 161-177. London: Bloomsbury.
• Thompson, Geoff. 2001. Interaction in academic writing: learning to argue with the reader. Applied Linguistics, 22/1: 58-78.
• Thompson, Geoff. 1997. Training teachers to ask questions. ELT Journal, 51/2: 99-105.
• Thompson, Geoff. 1996. Voices in the text: Discourse perspectives on language reports. Applied Linguistics, 17/4: 501-530.
• Thompson, Geoff. 1996. Some misconceptions about communicative language teaching. ELT Journal, 50/1: 9-15.
• Thompson, Geoff & Puleng Thetela. 1995. The sound of one hand clapping: the management of interaction in written text. Text 15/1: 103-127.
• Thompson, Geoff & Ye, Yiyun. 1991. Evaluation in the reporting verbs used in academic papers. Applied Linguistics, 12/4: 365-382.

Contributions to edited volumes

• Thompson, Geoff. forthcoming. Hybridization: how language users graft new discourses on old root stock. To appear in Donna Miller & Paul Bayley (eds), Hybridity in Systemic Functional Linguistics. London: Equinox.
• Thompson, Geoff. forthcoming. Pattern grammar and transitivity analysis. To appear in Maggie Charles, Nicholas Groom & Suganthi John (eds), Corpora, Grammar and Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Berry, Margaret, Geoff Thompson & Hilary Hillier. 2014. Theme and variations. In María de los Ángeles Gómez González, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez & Francisco Gonzálvez-García (eds), Theory and Practice in Functional-Cognitive Space. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 107-126.
• Thompson, Geoff. 2014. Labelling discourse acts: interpersonal projection across registers. In Fang Yan & Jonathan Webster (eds), Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory and application. London: Equinox, 206-223.
• Thompson, Geoff. 2014. Affect and emotion, target-value mismatches, and Russian dolls: refining the appraisal model. In Geoff Thompson & Laura Alba-Juez (eds), Evaluation in Context. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 47-66.
• Alba-Juez, Laura & Geoff Thompson. 2014. The many faces and phases of evaluation. In Geoff Thompson & Laura Alba-Juez (eds), Evaluation in Context. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 3-26.
• Thompson, Geoff. 2013. Picking an argument: politicians' choice of reasoning strategies. In Lise Fontaine, Tom Bartlett & Gerard O’Grady (eds), Systemic Functional Linguistics: Exploring Choice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 226-246.
• Thompson, Geoff. 2009. Just checking: questions and social roles. In Martha Shiro, Paola Bentivoglio & Frances Ehrlich (eds), Haciendo discurso. Homenaje a Adriana Bolívar (Talking discourse: In honour of Adriana Bolívar). Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela, 141-156.
• Thompson, Geoff. 2009. Grammatical metaphor and success in academic writing. In Susan Hunston & David Oakey (eds), Introducing Applied Linguistics. London: Routledge, 37-43.
• Thompson, Geoff. 2009. Linguists would argue – biochemists conclude: A cross-disciplinary comparison of discourse act labeling in research articles. In Stef Slembrouck, Miriam Taverniers & Mieke Van Herreweghe (eds), From will to well: Studies in linguistics offered to Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen. Ghent: Academia Press, 405-414.
• Thompson, Geoff. 2009. Discourse analysis; Integrationism; Systemic Functional Grammar. In Siobhan Chapman & Chris Routledge (eds), Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 58-65, 97-100 and 225-232.
• Thompson, Geoff & Susan Thompson. 2009. Theme, Subject and the unfolding of text. In Gail Forey & Geoff Thompson (eds), Text-Type and Texture, London: Equinox, 45-69.
• Thompson, Geoff. 2008. From process to pattern: methodological considerations in analysing transitivity in text. In Carys Jones & Eija Ventola (eds), From Language to Multimodality: New Developments in the Study of Ideational Meaning, London: Equinox, 17-33.
• Ssebbunga-Masembe, Connie & Geoff Thompson. 2008. Potential sources of comprehension difficulties in advanced secondary school science textbooks: The case of Uganda. In Nina Nørgaard (ed.), Systemic Functional Linguistics in Use (Odense Working Papers in Language and Communication Volume 29), 749-766.
• Thompson, Geoff & Peter Muntigl. 2008. Systemic functional linguistics: an interpersonal perspective. In Gerd Antos & Eija Ventola (eds), Handbook of Interpersonal Communication (Handbook of Applied Linguistics Volume 2). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 107-132.
• Thompson, Geoff. 2007. Unfolding Theme: the development of clausal and textual perspectives on Theme. In Jonathan Webster, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen & Ruqaiya Hasan (eds), Continuing Discourse on Language: A Functional Perspective, London: Equinox, Volume 2, 669-694.
• Thompson, Geoff. 2006. Theme in text. In Keith Brown (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed.), Oxford: Elsevier, Volume 12, 658-668.
• Hunston, Susan & Geoff Thompson. 2006. Evaluation in text. In Keith Brown (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed.) Oxford: Elsevier, Volume 4, 305-312.
• Thompson, Geoff & Susan Hunston. 2006. System and corpus: two traditions with a common ground. In Geoff Thompson & Susan Hunston (eds), System and Corpus: exploring connections, London: Equinox, 1-14.
• Thompson, Geoff. 2005. M. A. K. Halliday. In Siobhan Chapman & Chris Routledge(eds) Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 116-122.
• Thompson, Geoff. 2003. The elided participant: presenting an uncommonsense view of the researcher’s role. In Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, Miriam Taverniers & Louise J. Ravelli (eds), Grammatical Metaphor: Views from systemic functional linguistics, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 257-278.
• Thompson, Geoff. 2001. Corpus, comparison, culture: doing the same things differently in different languages. In Mohsen Ghadessy, Alex Henry & Robert Roseberry (eds), Small Corpus Studies and ELT, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 311-334. Reprinted in Wolfgang Teubert & Ramesh Krishnamurthy (eds), 2007, Corpus Linguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, Volume 5, 68-87. London & New York: Routledge.
• Scott, Mike & Geoff Thompson. 2001. Introduction: why ‘patterns of text’?. In Mike Scott & Geoff Thompson (eds), Patterns of Text: In honour of Michael Hoey, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1-11.
• Thompson, Susan & Geoff Thompson. 2001.Patterns of cohesion in spoken text. In Mike Scott & Geoff Thompson (eds), Patterns of Text: In honour of Michael Hoey, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 55-82.
• Thompson, Geoff & Susan Hunston. 2000. Evaluation: an introduction. In Susan Hunston & Geoff Thompson (eds), Evaluation in Text, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-27.
• Thompson, Geoff & Jianglin Zhou. 2000. Evaluation and organisation in text: the structuring role of evaluative disjuncts. In Susan Hunston & Geoff Thompson (eds), Evaluation in Text, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 121-141.
• Thompson, Geoff. 1999. Acting the part: lexico-grammatical choices and contextual factors. In Mohsen Ghadessy (ed.), Text and Context in Functional Linguistics, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 103-126.
• Thompson, Geoff. 1998. Resonance in text. In Antonia Sánchez-Macarro and Ronald Carter (eds), Linguistic Choice across Genres: Variation in spoken and written English Amsterdam: Benjamins, 29-46.

Reviews

• of Wolfgang Teubert: Meaning, discourse and society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), reviewed in Languages in Contrast 11/2: 263-266, 2011.
• of Monika Bednarek: Emotion talk across corpora. (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), reviewed in Linguistics and the Human Sciences 3/3: 399-404, 2010.
• of Ken Hyland: Metadiscourse: Exploring interaction in writing (London: Continuum 2005), reviewed in Language in Society, 37/1: 138-141, 2008.
• of Kjell Lars Berge and Eva Maagerø (editors): Semiotics from the North: Nordic approaches to systemic functional linguistics (Oslo: Novus Press, 2005) reviewed in Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift,24/2: 257-261, 2006.
• of Michael Toolan: Total Speech: An integrational linguistic approach in language (Duke University Press, 1996) reviewed in Functions of Language, 5/1: 112-114, 1998.
• of Graham Lock: Functional English Grammar: An introduction for second language teachers (Cambridge University Press, 1996) reviewed in Language Awareness, 6/1: 54-57, 1997.