Language and Society
Volume 10
Published on 31. May 2007
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-8264-5876-6 (ISBN)
Description
A major enterprise comparable to a grand retrospective of the painting of some prominent artist of a distinctive school.' Roy Harris, Times Literary Supplement The tenth volume in Professor M.A.K. Halliday's collected works includes papers focusing on Language and Society. The papers provide a framework for understanding the social meaning of language, and the relation of language to other social phenomena. The volume begins with Professor Halliday's ground-breaking work on the users and uses of language. Subsequent chapters are organized around a discussion of sociolinguistic theory, and the relation between language and social class and social structure.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Academic
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
646 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-5876-6 (9780826458766)
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Persons
Professor M. A. K. Halliday (b. 1925) was Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia, until his retirement and has taught as a Visiting Professor around the world. As a self-styled 'generalist' he has published in many branches of linguistics. Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong.
Content
Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE: USERS AND USES; Editor's Introduction; 1. The Users and Uses of Language; PART TWO: SOCIOLINGUISTIC THEORY; Editor's Introduction; 2. Language in a Social Perspective; 3. Language and Social Man; 4. Sociological Aspects of Semantic Change; 5. Language as Social Semiotic: Towards a General Sociolinguistic Theory; 6. Some Aspects of Sociolinguistics; PART THREE: LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL CLASS; Editor's Introduction; 7. 'Foreword' to Basil Bernstein's Class, Codes and Control Vol. II: Applied Studies towards a Sociology of Language; 8. Language and the Theory of Codes; PART FOUR: LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE; Editor's Introduction; 9. An Interpretation of the Functional Relationship between Language and Social Structure; 10. Anti-languages; Bibliography.