Overview

For nearly half a century, Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insights into the social semiotic phenomenon we call language. This ten volume series presents the seminal works of Professor Halliday. This first volume contains seventeen papers, including a new chapter entitled 'A Personal Perspective', in which Halliday offers his own current perspective on language and linguistic theory. The first part of the book presents early papers (1957-66) on basic concepts such as system, structure, class and rank. The second part highlights how, over the span of two decades (the 1960s to mid-1980s), Halliday developed systemic theory to account for linguistic phenomena extending upward through the ranks from word to clause to text. The last part, 'Construing and Abstracting', includes more recent work, in which Halliday discusses the issues confronting those who study linguistics, using Firth's description of linguistics - 'language turned back on itself'.

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Author:   M.A.K. Halliday (University of Sydney, Australia) ,  Jonathan Webster
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780826488220

ISBN 10:   0826488226
Pages:   454
Publication Date:   01 October 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Personal Perspective by M. A. K. Halliday; Section One: Early Papers on Basic Concepts; 1. Some Aspects of Systematic Description and Comparison in Grammatical Analysis; 2. Categories of the Theory of Grammar; 3. Class in Relation to the Axes of Chain and Choice in Language; 4. Some Notes on 'Deep' Grammar; 5. The Concept of Rank: A Reply; Section Two: Word-Clause-Text; 6. Lexis as a Linguistic Level; 7. Language Structure and Language Function; 8. Modes of Meaning and Modes of Expression; 9. Text Semantics and Clause Grammar; 10. Dimensions of Discourse Analysis; Section Three: Construing and Enacting; 11. On the Ineffability of Grammatical Categories; 12. Spoken and Written Modes of Meaning; 13. How do you Mean?; 14. Grammar and Daily Life.

Reviews

This first volume in the Collected Works of M. A. K. Halliday series contains fifteen papers, with the addition of a new piece entitled ''A personal perspective'' as the introduction. The papers are pieced together chronologically according to topic, and divided into 3 sections. The whole volume is oriented towards his comprehensive depiction of language, that is, the systemic functional grammar (SFG). - Linguist List , April 2006

Author Information

M.A.K. Halliday was Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney.

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