On Language and Linguistics
Volume 3
Published on 1. July 2003
Book
Hardback
490 pages
978-0-8264-5869-8 (ISBN)
Description
The third volume in the collected works of Professor M.A.K. Halliday, On Language and Linguistics, includes eighteen papers exploring different aspects of language from a systemic functional perspective. The papers are organized into three sections: the place of linguistics as a discipline; linguistics and language; and language as social semiotic. In addition, there is a new work from Professor Halliday, entitled The architecture of language, in which he focuses on the assumptions or working hypotheses that enabled him to explore important questions about this massive semiotic power called 'language'.
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An excellent updated version of Halliday's Systemic-Functional Theory... crucial to understanding Halliday's way of describing, explaining and interpreting language in use * LinguistList *More details
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: 31 mm
Weight
895 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-5869-8 (9780826458698)
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Persons
M.A.K. Halliday was Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also the Managing Editor of the International Linguistics Association's journal WORD, and the editor of the forthcoming Journal of World Languages (2014).
Content
Introduction: on the "architecture" of human language
Professor M. A. K. Halliday
Section One: The Place of Linguistics as a Discipline
Editor's Introduction
1. Syntax and the Consumer
2. Grammar, Society and the Noun
3. The Context of Linguistics
4. Ideas about Language
5. Language and the Order of Nature
6. New Ways of Meaning: the challenge to applied linguistics
Section Two: Linguistics and Language
Editor's Introduction
7. A Brief Sketch of Systemic Grammar
8. Systemic Background
9. Systemic Grammar and the Concept of a "Science of Language"
10. Language in a Changing World
11. A Recent View of "Missteps" in Linguistic Theory
12. Linguistics as Metaphor
13. Is the Grammar Neutral? Is the Grammarian Neutral?
Section Three: Language as Social Semiotic
Editor's Introduction
14. The Functional Basis of Language
15. Towards a Sociological Semantics
16. The History of a Sentence
17. The Act of Meaning
18. On Language in Relation to the Evolution of Human Consciousness
Appendix: Systemic Theory
Professor M. A. K. Halliday
Section One: The Place of Linguistics as a Discipline
Editor's Introduction
1. Syntax and the Consumer
2. Grammar, Society and the Noun
3. The Context of Linguistics
4. Ideas about Language
5. Language and the Order of Nature
6. New Ways of Meaning: the challenge to applied linguistics
Section Two: Linguistics and Language
Editor's Introduction
7. A Brief Sketch of Systemic Grammar
8. Systemic Background
9. Systemic Grammar and the Concept of a "Science of Language"
10. Language in a Changing World
11. A Recent View of "Missteps" in Linguistic Theory
12. Linguistics as Metaphor
13. Is the Grammar Neutral? Is the Grammarian Neutral?
Section Three: Language as Social Semiotic
Editor's Introduction
14. The Functional Basis of Language
15. Towards a Sociological Semantics
16. The History of a Sentence
17. The Act of Meaning
18. On Language in Relation to the Evolution of Human Consciousness
Appendix: Systemic Theory