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This book is designed as a concise introductory survey of systemic theory expounded by M.A.K. Halliday and other major systemic grammarians, with particular reference to the syntactic and semantic dimensions of the grammar. It is intended for undergraduate students of linguistics, postgraduate students of applied linguistics as well as for those in education concerned with language and language teaching. - It is divided into two parts: Part 1 outlines the scale-and-category framework and the basic principles of systemic syntax. Part 2 then present the reorientated mutifunctional model and considers each of the components comprising the semantic dimension of the grammar.