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The Essential Halliday Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

The Essential Halliday By Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

The Essential Halliday by Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

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Presents a survey of M A K Halliday's work on Systemic Functional Linguistics. This title contains selected articles by Halliday on the core areas of systemic functional linguistics. It includes discussion of function, metafunction, grammar, metaphor, learning and teaching language, child language, social semiotics and discourse analysis.

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The Essential Halliday by Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

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.

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Distils the major insights from six decades of research by the foremost functional linguist of our times - J. R. Martin, Professor of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia.
[I]t provides readers with a chance to identify a specific are of the theory they wish to explore and see it discussed and illustrated several times in different contexts, using different examples from Halliday's work. This repeated exposure throughout a single chapter allows for a gradual building of knowledge on a particular concept and may assist those readers having trouble with grasping the complexities of this theory of language...the concepts and their encompassing terminology are constantly introduced and revisited across the individual chapters of the book, helping to both reinforce the key concepts of Halliday's theory and create an understanding of the interrelatedness of these different concepts...this edited volume provides an extensive exploration of the features of Halliday's theories second only in depth and coverage to the original Collected Works themselves. -- Kieran A File, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand * Discourse Studies *

About Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Professor M. A. K. Halliday (b. 1925) was Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia, until his retirement and has taught as a Visiting Professor around the world. As a self-styled 'generalist' he has published in many branches of linguistics. Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

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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GOR007867443
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The Essential Halliday by Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2009-02-07
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