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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:   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.
Edition:   illustrated edition
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.820kg
ISBN:  

9780826449443

ISBN 10:   0826449441
Pages:   454
Publication Date:   01 September 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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 Appendix to Section One 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: Types of Grammatical Structure and Their Determination by Different Semantic Functions 9. Text Semantics and Clause Grammar: How is a Text Like a Clause? 10. Dimensions of Discourse Analysis: Grammar 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: Concurrence and Complementarity 15. On Grammar and Grammatics"

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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.

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