The essential Halliday
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The essential Halliday
Continuum, c2009
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-465) and index
Contents of Works
- Act(s) of meaning
- Complementarity and complexity in language
- Context of culture and of situation
- Function in language
- Grammatical metaphor
- Grammatics
- Indeterminacy in language
- Intonation
- Language teaching, learning and development
- Linguistic computing
- Markedness
- Metafunctions
- Quantifying language
- Semantic system
- Semiotics
- Structure and rank
- Text and discourse analysis
- Theory and description
- Trinocular vision
- Varieties and variation in language : dialect, register, code
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: hbk ISBN 9780826495341
Description
The Essential Halliday contains selected articles by M A K Halliday on the core areas of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Presenting a thorough survey of Halliday's published work across five decades, the reader includes discussion of function, metafunction, grammar, metaphor, learning and teaching language, child language, computational linguistics, semantics, social semiotics and discourse analysis. Detailed cross references and suggestions for further reading guide the reader to other articles of interest. This comprehensive reader is an indispensable guide to the work of M A K Halliday. It will be an invaluable resource for students and researchers of Systemic Functional Linguistics.
Table of Contents
- 1. Acts of meaning
- 2. Complexity in language: density & intricacy
- 3. Context of culture and of situation: field, tenor, mode
- 4. Function in language & linguistics
- 5. Grammatical metaphor
- 6. Grammatics & metalanguage
- 7. Indeterminacy in language
- 8. Language development
- 9. Language in education
- 10. Linguistic computing
- 11. Meta-functional analysis
- 12. Phonetics and phonology
- intonation
- 13. Quantifying language
- 14. Semantic system
- 15. Socio-semiotics
- 16. Structure and rank
- 17. Text and discourse analysis
- 18. Theory & description
- 19. Trinocular vision
- 20. Variation in language.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780826495358
Description
Providing a thorough survey of five decades of M.A.K. Halliday's published work on Systemic Functional Linguistics, this is an indispensable guide for students and researchers alike. "The Essential Halliday" contains selected articles by M.A.K. Halliday on the core areas of systemic functional linguistics. Presenting a thorough survey of Halliday's published work across five decades, the reader includes discussion of function, metafunction, grammar, metaphor, learning and teaching language, child language, computational linguistics, semantics, social semiotics and discourse analysis. This title includes detailed cross references and suggestions for further reading that guide the reader to other articles of interest. This comprehensive collection is an indispensable guide to the work of Halliday. It will be an invaluable resource for students and researchers of systemic functional linguistics.
Table of Contents
- 1. Acts of meaning
- 2. Complexity in language: density & intricacy
- 3. Context of culture and of situation: field, tenor, mode
- 4. Function in language & linguistics
- 5. Grammatical metaphor
- 6. Grammatics & metalanguage
- 7. Indeterminacy in language
- 8. Language development
- 9. Language in education
- 10. Linguistic computing
- 11. Meta-functional analysis
- 12. Phonetics and phonology
- intonation
- 13. Quantifying language
- 14. Semantic system
- 15. Socio-semiotics
- 16. Structure and rank
- 17. Text and discourse analysis
- 18. Theory & description
- 19. Trinocular vision
- 20. Variation in language.
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