Language and Society
Volume 10
1st Edition
Published on 31. January 2009
320 pages
978-1-4411-7847-3 (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.
Reviews / Votes
" Everyone will come away from this reading and re-reading of Michael Halliday's writings on language and society with a different insight: for me it is two matters; every person's capacity for creativity in exploiting meaning potential, and the central importance of establishing a unifying system able not only to capture form but to relate it consequentially and functionally to our understandings of social life." Chris Candlin, Senior Research Professor, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia "an initiative greatly to be welcomed." Reviewed in IH Journal, 2008More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-7847-3 (9781441178473)
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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
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART 1: USERS AND USES
Editor's Introduction
1. The Users and Uses of Language
PART 2: 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 3: 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 4: LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
Editor's Introduction
9. An Interpretation of the Functional Relationship between Language and Social Structure
10. Anti-languages
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
PART 1: USERS AND USES
Editor's Introduction
1. The Users and Uses of Language
PART 2: 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 3: 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 4: LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
Editor's Introduction
9. An Interpretation of the Functional Relationship between Language and Social Structure
10. Anti-languages
Bibliography
