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This book showcases research on theoretical, descriptive, and methodological innovations for understanding language patterns grounded in a Systemic Functional Linguistic perspective, providing a foundation for practice and further research for scholars working in this area.

All languages and cultures appear to have one or more "mind-like" constructs that supplement the human body. Linguistic evidence suggests they all have a word for someone, and another word for body, but that doesn¿t mean that whatever else makes up a human being (i.e. someone) apart from the body is the same everywhere.

This volume showcases linguistic approaches to the study of pop culture and their potential to inform linguistic theory building and analytical frameworks. Eamples from a range of pop culture registers provide a description of these forms through linguistic study and outline methodological issues involved in applying linguistic approaches.

This innovative collection brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars highlighting the "appliability" of Systemic Functional Linguistics and the ways in which theoretical and analytical conclusions drawn from its applications can inform and advance the study of language.

This book examines the ways in which Polari - a secret form of language mainly used by homosexual men - was used in order to construct 'gay identities' in the UK over the past fifty years.