The London school

—The London School and the systemic functional grammar, which has developed out of the London approach to language, consider meaning and function as the basis of human language and communicative activity. The linguistic theorizing in the London style is of practical significance and therefore is more relevant to sociolinguistics, stylistics, literary criticism and language teaching.

-The London School stressed the practical side of phonetics, and trained its students to perceive, transcribe and reproduce each minute sound distinction very precisely.