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Studies in Chinese Language, the eighth volume in the Collected
Works of Professor M. A. K. Halliday, approaches the Chinese
language from several interesting vantage points, ranging from
studies of medieval to modern grammar, phonology, and discourse.
Professor Halliday's doctoral thesis, 'The Language of the Chinese,
Secret History of the Mongols, provides the basis for the first
section of this volume, with extracts from the book as well as the
original Chinese text, which is one of the earliest known texts
written in Mandarin, included in full on the accompanying online
resources. The second section focuses on modern Chinese grammar,
while the third looks at Chinese phonology. The final section,
Grammar and Discourse', includes papers on grammatical metaphor and
scientific discourse in both Chinese and English.
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.
This work is the ninth volume in the "Collected Works of M.A.K.
Halliday" series. The ninth volume in Professor M.A.K. Halliday's
collected works is dedicated to the subject of language and
education. Professor Halliday sums up the scope of language
education under the following five headings: mother tongue
education; second language learning; multilingual societies;
contexts of language education; and educational linguistics. In
addition to the previously unpublished "Applied Linguistics as an
Evolving Theme" (2002) originally presented by Professor Halliday
on the occasion of his being awarded the first Gold Medal by the
International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA), this
volume contains another nineteen papers covering a comprehensive
breadth of topics in language and education addressed by Professor
Halliday over the course of his career. The chapters cover language
development, language teaching, multilingualism, functional
variation in language, and the place of linguistics in education.
Studies in Chinese Language, the eighth volume in the Collected
Works of Professor M. A. K. Halliday, approaches the Chinese
language from several interesting vantage points, ranging from
studies of medieval to modern grammar, phonology, and discourse.
Professor Halliday s doctoral thesis, 'The Language of the Chinese,
Secret History of the Mongols', provides the basis for the first
section of this volume, with extracts from the book as well as the
original Chinese text, which is one of the earliest known texts
written in Mandarin, included in full on the accompanying online
resources. The second section focuses on modern Chinese grammar,
while the third looks at Chinese phonology. The final section,
Grammar and Discourse , includes papers on grammatical metaphor and
scientific discourse in both Chinese and English
This is the seventh volume in the Collected Works of Professor M.
A. K. Halliday: Studies in English Language. Topics covered in the
papers from the section on Theoretical foundations include
transitivity, theme-rhyme, mood, and modality in English. Other
sections include papers on English intonation and grammar including
discussion of word order in English and the complex structures
typical of informal spontaneous conversation. The grammatical
analyses of English also serve to demonstrate the application of
linguistics to language teaching. This is a fascinating volume,
which is mainly devoted to Michael Halliday's thinking in the
1960s. The collection includes articles ranging from detailed
innovative proposals for a description of intonation that would
allow it to be incorporated into the grammar, through an ambitious
re-orientation of the focus of grammatical description at a time
when Systemic Grammar was emerging from Scale and Category, to a
much later small-scale corpus investigation of the grammar of pain.
Together they illustrate Halliday's continuing intellectual
enthusiasm and openness to new linguistic trends, even though his
own development has always been by accretion, rather than
revolution. So, the reader is fascinated to discover how much of
the early work has been retained, often in a considerably modified
form, in the 21st century version of Systemic Functional Grammar. -
Malcolm Coulthard, Professor of English Language and Linguistics,
University of Birmingham, UK
In the course of his career, Professor Halliday has continued to
address the issue of the application of linguistic scholarship for
computational and quantitative studies. The sixth volume in the
collected works of Professor M.A.K. Halliday includes works that
span the last five decades, covering such topics as machine
translation: the early years; and probabilistic grammar. The last
section of this volume includes discussion of recent collaborative
efforts bringing together those working in systemic functional
grammar, fuzzy logic and "intelligent computing," engaging in what
Halliday refers to as computing with meaning. The Collected Works
of M.A.K. Halliday is a series that brings together Halliday's
publications in many branches of linguistics, both theoretical and
applied (a distinction which he himself rejects), including grammar
and semantics, discourse analysis and stylistics, phonology,
sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, language education and
child language development.
The fifth volume of the collected works of Professor M.A.K.
Halliday, The Language of Science, explores the semantic character
of scientific discourse. The chapters are organized into two
sections, one being on grammatical metaphor; the other dealing with
scientific English. In language, there exists the potential for
constructing new discourses, among them scientific discourse. The
volume opens with a new work from Professor Halliday addressing the
question, How big is a language? It is a question that goes to the
heart of the paradigmatic complexity, or meaning potential, that
characterizes language.
Each year, thousands of businesses file for bankruptcy protection
because managers fail to efficiently organize the company's
operations, misread market trends, pay inadequate attention to
product quality, or misinterpret the activities and intentions of
rival companies. Perhaps they fail to formulate optimal advertising
or financing strategies, procure raw materials and components at
least cost, or provide adequate incentives to motivate workers to
put forth their best efforts. Managerial economics is the
application of economic principles to topics of concern to
managers. This textbook develops a framework for predicting
managerial responses to changes in the business environment. It
combines the various business disciplines with quantitative methods
to identify optimal solutions to more efficiently achieve a firm's
organizational objectives. The topics discussed in this textbook
are readily accessible to students with a background in the
principles of microeconomics and business mathematics. The
selection and organizations of topics makes the textbook
appropriate for use in a wide range of curricula by students with
different backgrounds.
The third volume in the collected works of Professor M.A.K.
Halliday, On Language and Linguistics, includes eighteen papers
exploring different aspects of language from a systemic functional
perspective. The papers are organized into three sections: the
place of linguistics as a discipline; linguistics and language; and
language as social semiotic. In addition, there is a new work from
Professor Halliday, entitled "The architecture of language," in
which he focuses on the assumptions or working hypotheses that
enabled him to explore important questions about this massive
semiotic power called 'language'.
The Continuum Companion to Systemic Functional Linguistics is
designed to be the essential one-volume resource for students and
researchers. The book includes: introduction to the field by M A K
Halliday; comprehensive introduction to methodology and issues;
definitions of key terms; outlines of research areas; guide to
researching systemic functional linguistics; bibliography of key
readings. Comprehensive and accessible, this Continuum Companion
will be the essential guide for students and researchers of
systemic functional linguistics.
This first volume in a series presenting the collected works of
Professor M.A.K. Halliday contains seventeen papers, including a
new piece titled "A Personal Perspective" in which Professor
Halliday offers his own perspective on language and linguistic
theory as covered in his collected works. The first part presents
early papers (1957-1966) on basic concepts such as category,
structure, class, and rank. The second part highlights how over the
span of two decades (mid-sixties to mid-eighties) Halliday
developed systemic theory to account for linguistic phenomena
extending upward through the ranks from word to clause to text. The
third part includes more recent work in which Halliday discusses
the issues confronting those who would study linguistics, or as
Firth described it "language turned back on itself."
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.>
Management and Welfare of Farm Animals provides comprehensive and
up-to-date information on the humane management of all major farmed
species in both large-scale food production and alternative farming
systems. Designed for agricultural and veterinary science students,
this classic textbook covers the management and welfare of species
including dairy and beef cattle, veal calves, sheep, pigs,
chickens, turkeys, goats, horses, and farmed fish. The sixth
edition incorporates recent developments throughout, including an
entirely new chapter on international developments in animal
welfare law, politics, and practice. Updated chapters discuss
topics such as 'high welfare' livestock systems, the impact of
automation and new technologies on production and welfare, the
ecological impact and sustainability issues of large-scale
production systems, and more. Provides a basic understanding of the
principles and practices of professional and humane farm animal
management Covers animal husbandry, behavior as an indicator of
animal welfare, and the assessment, monitoring, and promotion of
improved welfare at the farm level Offers updated information on
free-range poultry, robot milking, automated disease scanning, and
pastoral systems in the developing world Includes less-common farm
species such as South American camelids, ostriches, and game birds
Management and Welfare of Farm Animals, Sixth Edition remains the
ideal textbook for students in professional, technical, or
vocational education courses on the management and welfare of farm
animals.
Packed full of analysis and interpretation, historical background,
discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to
the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play
or a novel. You'll learn all about the historical context of the
piece; find detailed discussions of key passages and characters;
learn interesting facts about the text; and discover structures,
patterns and themes that you may never have known existed. In the
Advanced Notes, specific sections on critical thinking, and advice
on how to read critically yourself, enable you to engage with the
text in new and different ways. Full glossaries, self-test
questions and suggested reading lists will help you fully prepare
for your exam, while internet links and references to film, TV,
theatre and the arts combine to fully immerse you in your chosen
text. York Notes offer an exciting and accessible key to your text,
enabling you to develop your ideas and transform your studies!
"Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court: Politics, Drama,
Sexuality" examines the performative nature of Restoration
libertinism by reading reports of libertine activities and texts of
libertine plays within the context of the fraternization between
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, John Wilmot, Earl of
Rochester, Sir Charles Sedley, Sir George Etherege, and William
Wycherley. Webster argues that libertines, both real and imagined,
performed traditionally secretive acts, including excessive
drinking, sex, sedition, and sacrilege, in the public sphere. This
eruption of the private into the public challenged a Stuart
ideology that distinguished between the nation's public life and
the king's and his subjects' private consciences. Although this
eruption was contained by the early 1680s, the libertine
performances this book analyzes nevertheless played an important
part in the history of English radicalism.
The Bloomsbury Companion to M. A. K. Halliday is a comprehensive
and accessible reference resource to one of the world's leading and
most influential linguists. Born in 1925, Halliday is the figure
most responsible for the development of systemic functional
linguistics (SFL). The impact of his work extends beyond
linguistics, into the study of stylistics, computation linguistics,
visual narrative and multimodal communication. He is considered a
founder of the field of social semiotics. Written by leading
figures in the field, the volume provides readers with an
authoritative overview of his early career, his most important
theoretical findings and how his work has influenced linguistics as
a discipline. From the publishers of his 'Collected Works' and 'The
Essential Halliday', this is another must have book underlining
Halliday's era-defining impact on the field of linguistics.
Each year, thousands of businesses file for bankruptcy protection
because managers fail to efficiently organize the company's
operations, misread market trends, pay inadequate attention to
product quality, or misinterpret the activities and intentions of
rival companies. Perhaps they fail to formulate optimal advertising
or financing strategies, procure raw materials and components at
least cost, or provide adequate incentives to motivate workers to
put forth their best efforts. Managerial economics is the
application of economic principles to topics of concern to
managers. This textbook develops a framework for predicting
managerial responses to changes in the business environment. It
combines the various business disciplines with quantitative methods
to identify optimal solutions to more efficiently achieve a firm's
organizational objectives. The topics discussed in this textbook
are readily accessible to students with a background in the
principles of microeconomics and business mathematics. The
selection and organizations of topics makes the textbook
appropriate for use in a wide range of curricula by students with
different backgrounds.
This textbook is an introduction to game theory, which is the
systematic analysis of decision-making in interactive settings.
Game theory can be of great value to business managers. The ability
to correctly anticipate countermove by rival firms in competitive
and cooperative settings enables managers to make more effective
marketing, advertising, pricing, and other business decisions to
optimally achieve the firm's objectives. Game theory does not
always accurately predict how rivals will act in strategic
situations, but does identify a decision maker's best response to
situations involving move and countermove. As Nobel Prize winner
Thomas Shelling noted: "We may wish to understand how participants
actually do conduct themselves in conflict situations; an
understanding of the 'correct' play may give us a bench mark for
the study of actual behavior." The concise and axiomatic approach
to the material presented in this textbook is easily accessible to
students with a background in the principles of microeconomics and
college mathematics. The selection and organizations of topics
makes the textbook appropriate for use in a wide range of curricula
by students with different backgrounds.
The Language of Early Childhood is the fourth volume in the
collected works of Professor M.A.K. Halliday. Eighteen papers
looking at the development of early childhood language are
presented over three sections: infancy and protolanguage;
transition from childhood tongue to mother tongue; early language
and learning. The sociolinguistic account of the early development
of the mother tongue presented in Professor Halliday's works is
based on his intensive study of the language of one particular
child, Nigel, for the period from nine to eighteen months. The
complete 'Nigel Transcripts' will also be included on CD with this
volume.
Game theory is the study of strategic behavior in situations in
which the decision makers are aware of the interdependence of their
actions. This innovative textbook introduces students to the most
basic principles of game theory - move and countermove - with an
emphasis on real-world business and economic applications. Students
with a background in principles of economics and business
mathematics can readily understand most of the
material.Demonstration problems in each chapter are designed to
enhance the student's understanding of the concepts presented in
the text. Many chapters include non-technical applications designed
to further the student's intuitive understanding of strategic
behavior. Case studies help underscore the usefulness of game
theory for analyzing real-world situations. Each chapter concludes
with a review and questions and exercises. An online Instructor's
Manual with test bank is available to professors who adopt the
text.
How does one's grammar depend on one's conception of language? In
systemic functional linguistics, language is viewed as a meaning
potential, thus embracing the view, now supported by contemporary
theories of the evolution of human consciousness, that language has
evolved in the living of life in society. Using the theoretical
framework of systemic functional linguistics, the chapters of this
book explore the nature of language, the relations of meaning and
society, of form and meaning, and of grammar and lexis. Halliday
has referred to the level of lexicogrammar as the powerhouse of
language: this is where the resource for creating linguistic
meaning resides. But language as resource cannot be adequately
described as a set of syntagmatic structures; instead, the primary
focus must be on the paradigmatic axis, which after all furnishes
the principle for the actualisation of syntagms. Accordingly,
aspects of Urdu and English semantics, grammar and lexis are
presented here in terms of systemic options, realised as
structures.
"Meaning in Context" brings together some of the biggest names in
systemic functional linguistics in one volume to explore the
construction of meaning in language."Meaning in Context" collects
some of the biggest names in systemic functional linguistics in one
volume, and shows how this theory can be applied to language
studies 'intelligently', in order to arrive at a better
understanding of how meaning is constructed in language. The
chapters use systemic functional theory to examine a range of
issues including corpus linguistics, multimodality, language
technology, world Englishes and language evolution.This
forward-thinking volume will be of interest to researchers in
applied linguistics and systemic functional linguistics.
The concept context of situation introduced by Malinowski some
eighty years ago has now become an essential element of the
vocabulary of any linguistic theory whose aim it is to reveal the
nature of language. With the abandonment of the spurious
distinction between competence and performance, the process of
language, i.e., language use, has claimed its rightful place in the
study of language. The chapters of this book focus on the relations
of context and text, conceptualising the latter as language
operative in some recognizable social context. It is argued that
context is not simply a backdrop for the occurrence of words;
rather, it is an active element which on the one hand plays a
crucial role in the progression of human discourse and on the other
enters into and shapes the very nature of language as process and
as system, furnishing the foundation for functionality in language.
Acting as the interface between language and society, context
analysis reveals the power of language for creating, maintaining,
and changing human relationships.
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