J. R. 马丁（J. R. Martin）是当代知名语言学家、语言评价理论和积极性话语分析理论的创始人，悉尼学派语类研究领头人。
戴维·罗斯（David Rose）是悉尼大学语言学教授，J. R. Martin的弟子。

《语类关系与文化映射》一书由悉尼学派的领军人J. R. Martin 教授和其弟子David Rose博士合著，可谓悉尼学派语类理论的集大成之作。本书阐述了悉尼学派语类研究的出发点、理论框架、分析工具等理论问题，着重介绍了故事语类、历史语类、报告与解释语类、程序与程序讲述语类，并对相关的语类拓扑、语类学习路线设计、多模态语类等问题作了阐释。

Contents
Acknowledgements xxvii
Preface xxix
1 Getting going with genre 1
1.1 Back to school 1
1.2 Where did we turn? 8
1.3 Modelling context 9
1.4 Systemic functional linguistics 21
1.5 Tools for analysis: discourse semantics 30
1.6 Grammatical metaphor 38
1.7 A note on multimodality 44
1.8 This book 47
2 Stories 49
2.0 Variation in stories 49
2.1 Recount: recording personal experience 53
2.2 Anecdotes － reacting to events 56
2.3 Exemplum － interpreting incidents 62
2.4 Observations － commenting on events 65
2.5 Narratives － resolving complications 67
2.6 News stories － new kinds of stories 74
2.7 A system of story genres 81
2.8 Story phases － another perspective 82
2.9 Response genres － evaluating stories 93
3 Histories 99
3.0 From stories to histories 99
3.1 Biographical recounts － telling life histories 100
3.2 Historical recounts － recording public histories 105
3.3 Historical accounts and explanations － explaining the past 114
3.4 Expositions, discussions and challenges － debating the past 118
3.5 Packaging value － what history means 125
3.6 Typology － classifying difference 131
3.7 Topology － proximating likeness 132
4 Reports and explanations 141
4.0 Classifying and explaining 141
4.1 Reports: classifying and describing things 142
4.2 Explanations: how processes happen 150
4.3 Genres in science 166
4.4 Multimodal reports and explanations 167
5 Procedures and procedural recounts 181
5.1 Procedures: directing specialised activities 182
5.2 Procedural recounts 198
5.3 Protocol 213
5.4 Procedural systems 217
5.5 Macrogenres 218
5.6 Education and production 226
6 Keeping going with genre 231
6.1 Is genre everything? 231
6.2 Relations among genres － paradigmatic relations 235
6.3 Relations between genres － syntagmatic relations 250
6.4 Dialogue 260
Notes 262
References 267
Index 286