
Language Topics
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- 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
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