Language Topics
Essays in honour of Michael Halliday. Volume 1
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1987
XXXII, 490 pages
978-90-272-8624-6 (ISBN)
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This volume in honour of Michael Halliday begins with a section on the background to the development of MAK's ideas. The second section groups papers on language development in early childhood, which has always been one of Halliday's main interests. The focus of the third section is on aspects of synchronic and diachronic change in language. Halliday has always emphasised the dynamic interaction between these two perspectives in relation to language use in social contexts. The final section caters to Halliday's interest in ethnographic, anthropological and educational issues and explore language use in a diversity of world contexts.
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Content
- LANGUAGE TOPICS I
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Comprehensive bibliography of books and articles by M.A.K. Halliday
- 1. Starting Points
- Sentence patterns and predicate classes
- Notes
- On two starting points of communication
- The texts
- Analysis of the texts
- Discussion of the analysis
- Context dependence and context independence
- The two starting points and three aspects of FSP
- Notes
- The position of Czech linguistics in theme-focus research
- Notes
- J.R. Firth in retrospect: a view from the eighties
- Context and contextualisation
- Restricted languages
- The polysystemic hypothesis
- Invariance, biuniqueness, linearity
- The "ad hoc" principle
- Note
- Daniel Jones' "classical" model of pronunciation training: an applied linguistic revaluation
- The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching revisite
- 2. Language Development
- Don't you get bored speaking only English? "Expressions of metalinguistic awareness in a bilingual child
- Introduction
- 1. Metalinguistic awareness and bilingualism
- 2. Joanna's language history
- 3. Joanna's metalinguistic awareness
- 4. Concluding remarks
- Note
- Toward practical theory: Halliday applied
- Learning to mean
- What it means to be strategic
- What it means to be literate
- Meaning to learn: Halliday as context and potential
- Development of referential cohesion in a child's monologues
- The development of cohesion in Emily's monologues
- Notes
- Appendix
- Exploring the textual properties of "protoreading
- Method
- Procedure
- Description of the text analysis
- Global text structure analysis
- Texture analysis
- Misplaced extrapolations
- Tangential extrapolations
- Summary
- Results of total token selection
- Results of tokens per global structure element
- Description of token patterns in the Placement and Initiating Event ofAndrea's and Robert's protoreadings
- Concluding remarks
- Notes
- Appendix
- Before speaking: across cultures
- Introduction
- Pre-speaking meaning
- Similarities within different events
- Background
- Observation of actions
- Concluding remarks
- Sharing makes sense: intersubjectivity and the makingof an infant's meaning
- Introduction: pathfinding in study of language development
- Halliday's theory of the innate and developing functions of language
- The beginning: neonatal awareness and its sensitivity to human interest
- First conversations with two-month olds
- Play - a field for negotiations of social forms: baby music
- Growing interest in manipulation of objects and changes in play
- Emergence of cooperation in tasks
- Learning and using meaningful things and actions
- Development of individuality within society
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- The development of conversation
- Background to the investigation
- The description of adult-child conversation
- Applying the scheme of analysis
- Analysis and results
- Length and initiation of interactions
- Conversational completeness
- The meanings exchanged in early conversations
- Managing the conversation
- Moving towards equality of participation
- A case study of one mother-child pair
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 3. Sign, Context and Change
- Today
- For Michael Halliday In hoc signo vinces
- George Herbert's Love III and its many mansions
- The past and prejudice: toward de-mythologizingthe English canon
- Introduction
- English in the post-colonial period
- Prejudices and the past
- What does "de-mythologizing" mean?
- Why does English have a future in the outer circle?
- What are current concerns?
- Conclusion
- Note
- Writing systems and language change in English
- Notes
- On the major diseases of linguistics with somesuggested cures and antidotes
- Glottophobia
- Glottomania
- Theoretophobia
- Theoretomania
- Logophobia
- Logomania
- Imagophobia
- Imagomania
- Mathematicophobia
- Mathematicomania
- Sociophobia
- Sociomania
- Demoglossophobia
- Demoglossomama
- Politophobia
- Politomania
- Heterognosiphobia
- Heterognosimania
- Poetophobia
- Poetomania
- Graphophobia
- Graphomania
- Textophobia
- Textomania
- Hierophobia
- Hieromania
- Psychophobia
- Psychomania
- Historicophobia
- Historicomania
- Semophobia
- Semomania
- Porno/scatophobia
- Porno/scatomania
- Glotto-agorophobia
- Breaking the Seal of Time": the pragmatics of poetics
- Of cakes and eating
- An eternal artistic triad
- Why pragmatics?
- Allegoric interlude: Pegasus and Muse
- Ecstasy and re-making: the Laura syndrome
- Poetics and its pragmatic center
- Conclusion: pragmatic creation
- Notes
- The use of systemic linguistics in translation analysis and criticism
- Le graphémique et l'iconique dans le message
- Order and entropy in natural language
- Note
- Sign and signifex
- 1. Signifex solus
- 2. Signifex rex
- Notes
- The practice and theory of translation
- 4. Language Around the World
- Grammatical relations, semantic roles and topic-commentstructure in a New Guinea highland language: Harway
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Harway clause structure
- 3. Criteria for grammatical relations
- 4. Pragmatic roles: topic-comment structures
- 5. Conclusion
- Note
- Toward a bilingual dictionary of idioms: Hindi-English
- Introduction
- Defining idiom
- Structure and function of idioms
- Classes of idioms
- Dictionary listing of idioms
- Notes
- Mind your language: conscious and unconscious structuring in Swahili
- Notes
- Communicative functions of particles in Singapore English
- Place-name study in Japan
- 1. Place names
- 2. Definition
- 3. History of place-name study in Japan
- 4. Use of modified Chinese characters for place names
- Conclusion
- Teaching English as a second language in India: focus on objectives
- Introduction
- The objectives of language teaching
- Functionally-determined sub-categories
- Objectives of teaching English as a second language in India
- Notes
- The impersonal verb construction in Australian languages
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Murrinh-Patha
- 3. Other Australian languages
- 4. Non-Australian languages
- 5. Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- Semantics and world view in languages of the Santa Cruz Archipelago, Solomon islands
- Introduction
- Language contacts and their effects
- Language contacts in the Santa Cruz Archipelago
- Some features of Santa Cruz Archipelago languages
- Remarks on semantic features of Santa Cruz Archipelago languages
- Classifying the surrounding world as reflected in Santa Cruz Archipelago languages
- Noun classes
- Semantical similar concepts expressed through phonologically similar lexicalitems
- Verb prefixes indicating modes of action
- Lexical items composed of small meaningful elements
- Verb suffixes indicating the exact nature of the relationship between anaction and its object
- Affixes indicating the location and direction of an action
- Conclusion
- List of references
