Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) ,
M.A.K. Halliday (University of Sydney, Australia)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Volume: v. 10
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.492kg
ISBN: 9781847065773
ISBN 10: 1847065775
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 31 January 2009
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Language: English
Reviews
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, Australia '...a major enterprise comparable to a grand retrospective of the painting of some prominent artist of a distinctive school.' Roy Harris, Times Literary Supplement
"" 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 -- Chris Candlin, Senior Research Professor, Macquarie University, Sydney ""an initiative greatly to be welcomed."" Reviewed in IH Journal, 2008
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 -- Chris Candlin, Senior Research Professor, Macquarie University, Sydney an initiative greatly to be welcomed. Reviewed in IH Journal, 2008
Author Information
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). M.A.K. Halliday was Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney.
