On Grammar
Volume 1
Published on 1. September 2002
Book
Hardback
454 pages
978-0-8264-4944-3 (ISBN)
Description
This first volume in a series presenting the collected works of Professor M.A.K. Halliday contains seventeen papers, including a new piece titled A Personal Perspective in which Professor Halliday offers his own perspective on language and linguistic theory as covered in his collected works. The first part presents early papers (1957-1966) on basic concepts such as category, structure, class, and rank. The second part highlights how over the span of two decades (mid-sixties to mid-eighties) Halliday developed systemic theory to account for linguistic phenomena extending upward through the ranks from word to clause to text. The third part includes more recent work in which Halliday discusses the issues confronting those who would study linguistics, or as Firth described it language turned back on itself.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
842 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-4944-3 (9780826449443)
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Persons
M A K Halliday was born in Yorkshire in 1925. In 1965 he became Professor of General Linguistics at University College London. In 1975 he was appointed Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, where he remained until his retirement.
Content
Introduction: A Personal Perspective by M.A.K. Halliday / Section One: Early Papers on Basic Concepts / 1. Some Aspects of Systematic Description and Comparison in Grammatical Analysis / 2. Categories of the Theory of Grammar / 3. Class in Relation to the Axes of Chain and Choice in Language / 4. Some Notes on "Deep" Grammar / 5. The Concept of Rank: A Reply / Appendix to Section One / Section Two: Word-Clause-Text / 6. Lexis as a Linguistic Level / 7. Language Structure and Language Function / 8. Modes of Meaning and Modes of Expression: Types of Grammatical Structure and Their Determination by Different Semantic Functions / 9. Text Semantics and Clause Grammar: How is a Text Like a Clause? / 10. Dimensions of Discourse Analysis: Grammar / Section Three: Construing and Enacting / 11. On the Ineffability of Grammatical Categories / 12. Spoken and Written Modes of Meaning / 13. How Do You Mean? / 14. Grammar and Daily Life: Concurrence and Complementarity / 15. On Grammar and Grammatics