"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.

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.
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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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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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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.
Brings together key articles covering the main areas of Halliday's thought, forming a wonderful desktop reference resource

Product details

ISBN
9780826495341
Published
2009-02-07
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Height
234 mm
Width
156 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
480

Biographical note

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.