Description
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.
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
Author(s)
M.A.K. Halliday,
M. A. K. Halliday, Emeritus Professor of
Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australis.
Jonathan J. Webster, Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong.
Reviews
"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.
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