412 Corpus Linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics: Interpersonal meaning, identity and bonding in popular culture * Monika Bednarek, University of Technology, Sydney 1 Introduction This chapter is a contribution to the relatively recent combination of corpus linguistics (henceforth CL) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (henceforth SFL). It is also a contribution to the analysis of popular culture that is becoming increasingly more important in linguistics (compare Caldwell this volume on rap music, Tian this volume on Mulan). The main focus is on how CL connects to relevant SFL dimensions such as system/structure, stratification, instantiation, individuation, and genesis. The chapter also offers a corpus approach to identity (Tann this volume ) and bonding (Caple this volume ), illustrating this briefly with the help of corpus data from American popular culture, namely the television series Gilmore Girls (see Bednarek 2008c for a description). Sections 2 to 2.7 deal with the question of how CL connects to relevant SFL dimensions such as system/structure, stratification, instantiation, individuation, and genesis (Martin this volume ). Section 3 focuses on the investigation of identity and bonding, and looks at emotive interjections in the Gilmore Girls . 2 SFL dimensions and corpus linguistics 2.1 Introduction As a first starting point let us look at some of the dimensions of SFL research, which are introduced by Halliday and Matthiessen (2004: 20-31) and also discussed by Martin and