Language and Society: Volume 10

by M.A.K. Halliday, Jonathan J. Webster (Editor)

Overview

A major enterprise comparable to a grand retrospective of the painting of some prominent artist of a distinctive school. Roy Harris, Times Literary Supplement. The tenth volume in Professor M.A.K. Halliday's collected works includes papers focusing on Language and Society. The papers provide a framework for understanding the social meaning of language, and the relation of language to other social phenomena. The volume begins with Professor Halliday's ground-breaking work on the users and uses of language. Subsequent chapters are organized around a discussion of sociolinguistic theory, and the relation between language and social class and social structure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847065773
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/31/2009
Series:	Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday , #10
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

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 jourbanal WORD, and the editor of the forthcoming Jourbanal of World Languages (2014).

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments PART 1: USERS AND USES Editor's Introduction1. The Users and Uses of LanguagePART 2: SOCIOLINGUISTIC THEORY Editor's Introduction 2. Language in a Social Perspective 3. Language and Social Man 4. Sociological Aspects of Semantic Change 5. Language as Social Semiotic: Towards a General Sociolinguistic Theory 6. Some Aspects of Sociolinguistics PART 3: LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL CLASS Editor's Introduction 7. ‘Foreword' to Basil Bernstein's Class, Codes and Control Vol. II: Applied Studies towards a Sociology of Language 8. Language and the Theory of Codes PART 4: LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE Editor's Introduction 9. An Interpretation of the Functional Relationship between Language and Social Structure 10. Anti-languages Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

" Everyone will come away from this reading and re-reading of Michael Halliday's writings on language and society with a different insight: for me it is two matters; every person's capacity for creativity in exploiting meaning potential, and the central importance of establishing a unifying system able not only to capture form but to relate it consequentially and functionally to our understandings of social life."

Chris Candlin, Senior Research Professor, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia--Sanford Lakoff

"an initiative greatly to be welcomed." Reviewed in IH Journal, 2008

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