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This readable introductory textbook presents a concise survey of
lexicology. The first section of the book is a survey of the study
of words, providing students with an overview of basic issues in
defining and understanding the word as a unit of language. This
section also examines the history of lexicology, the evolution of
dictionaries and recent developments in the field. The second
section extends this study of lexicology into the relationship
between words and meaning, etymology, prescription, language as
social phenomenon and translation. "Lexicology: A Short
Introduction" will be of interest to undergraduate students of
linguistics.
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addition to the previously unpublished "Applied Linguistics as an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.
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'.
This text offers an introduction to words and corpus linguistics.
From this foundation it explores the much wider issues that are
inevitably raised but somehow marginalized in lexicology (the study
of words) and corpus linguistics: how are individual words
integrated into language? What are the real benefits of studying
the large quantities of text now available in corpora? How do we
best conceptualise meaning itself?;The book begins with a survey of
lexicology by Halliday. He reviews basic issues in defining and
understanding the word as a unit of language, but also includes
brief accounts of lexicology in India, China and the Islamic world.
Halliday introduces the notion of "corpus" and opens the way for a
rethinking of the nature of words and language. The central section
of the book, by Teubert and Yallop, expands a number of traditional
issues in the study of words and their meanings, from common
misconceptions about the "real meaning" of words to the
relationship between language and reality and the problems raised
by comparing different languages. This section both problematizes
the issues and develops a functional and social perspective on
meaning.; In the third and final se
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.>
This book is about the use of language in the science classroom. It
discusses the evolution of scientific discourse for learning in
secondary schools, and examines the form and function of language
across a variety of levels including lexiogrammar, discourse
semantics, register, genre and ideology. Special attention is paid
to how this knowledge is imparted. It will be of particular
interest to educators involved with linguistics and/or science
curriculum and teachers of English for special and academic
purposes.; It is aimed at teachers of undergraduates in science and
literacy, linguists teaching in English for special and academic
purposes and students in higher education with an interest in
science and literacy.
Cohesion in English is concerned with a relatively neglected part
of the linguistic system: its resources for text construction, the
range of meanings that are speciffically associated with relating
what is being spoken or written to its semantic environment. A
principal component of these resources is 'cohesion'. This book
studies the cohesion that arises from semantic relations between
sentences. Reference from one to the other, repetition of word
meanings, the conjunctive force of but, so, then and the like are
considered. Further, it describes a method for analysing and coding
sentences, which is applied to specimen texts.
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.
Fully updated and revised, this fourth edition of Halliday's
Introduction to Functional Grammar explains the principles of
systemic functional grammar, enabling the reader to understand and
apply them in any context. Halliday's innovative approach of
engaging with grammar through discourse has become a worldwide
phenomenon in linguistics. Updates to the new edition include:
Recent uses of systemic functional linguistics to provide further
guidance for students, scholars and researchers More on the ecology
of grammar, illustrating how each major system serves to realise a
semantic system A systematic indexing and classification of
examples More from corpora, thus allowing for easy access to data
Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar, Fourth Edition, is
the standard reference text for systemic functional linguistics and
an ideal introduction for students and scholars interested in the
relation between grammar, meaning and discourse.
This book is about the use of language in the science classroom. It
discusses the evolution of scientific discourse for learning in
secondary schools, and examines the form and function of language
across a variety of levels including lexiogrammar, discourse
semantics, register, genre and ideology. Special attention is paid
to how this knowledge is imparted. It will be of particular
interest to educators involved with linguistics and/or science
curriculum and teachers of English for special and academic
purposes.; It is aimed at teachers of undergraduates in science and
literacy, linguists teaching in English for special and academic
purposes and students in higher education with an interest in
science and literacy.
Cohesion in English is concerned with a relatively neglected part
of the linguistic system: its resources for text construction, the
range of meanings that are speciffically associated with relating
what is being spoken or written to its semantic environment. A
principal component of these resources is 'cohesion'. This book
studies the cohesion that arises from semantic relations between
sentences. Reference from one to the other, repetition of word
meanings, the conjunctive force of but, so, then and the like are
considered. Further, it describes a method for analysing and coding
sentences, which is applied to specimen texts.
This is the eleventh volume in Professor M.A.K. Halliday's
Collected Works. Taken together, they have shown the sizeable
international interest across a number of disciplines in the
systemic functional linguistics framework. It is applicable to all
aspects of the study of language especially meaning in context and
language acquisition. This volume further discusses Halliday's
notion of 'appliable linguistics'. Halliday's powerful theoretical
approach to the study of language has contributed significantly not
only to advances in our knowledge of how language works but also
how linguistic insights may be practically applied across a wide
spectrum of social concerns.
Fully updated and revised, this fourth edition of Halliday's
Introduction to Functional Grammar explains the principles of
systemic functional grammar, enabling the reader to understand and
apply them in any context. Halliday's innovative approach of
engaging with grammar through discourse has become a worldwide
phenomenon in linguistics. Updates to the new edition include:
Recent uses of systemic functional linguistics to provide further
guidance for students, scholars and researchers More on the ecology
of grammar, illustrating how each major system serves to realise a
semantic system A systematic indexing and classification of
examples More from corpora, thus allowing for easy access to data
Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar, Fourth Edition, is
the standard reference text for systemic functional linguistics and
an ideal introduction for students and scholars interested in the
relation between grammar, meaning and discourse.
Whether prose or poetry, how does a text come to mean what it does?
A functional-semantic approach to text analysis, such as is
illustrated in this book, offers a revealing look at the resources
of language at work in the creation of meaning, and a unique
perspective on the text as object of study. This collaborative work
between M.A.K. Halliday, the founder of Systemic Functional
Linguistics, and Jonathan Webster, the editor of Halliday's eleven
volume collected works, draws on a considerable body of Halliday's
previously unpublished work, including lectures on fundamental
concepts in Systemic-Functional Theory, to present a foundational
overview suitable to those who are new to the theory and
methodology of Systemic Functional Grammar and Rhetorical Structure
Theory. Building on this foundation, section two presents the
findings from several case studies in text analysis, demonstrating
how to conduct detailed functional-semantic analysis of the
speeches of Billy Graham, Barack Obama, Richard Nixon, Steve Jobs
and Susan Rice. This second section will benefit both beginners and
those who have already had some background in the study of
linguistics.
Intonation in the Grammar of English is written for scholars
interested in language but not necessarily linguists or
phoneticians. An introduction covers speech sound, locating it in
relation to other phenomena and disciplines, discussing its
representation and interpretation, and introducing the systems and
strata which frame its analysis in terms of systemic functional
linguistics. The three kinds of meaning -- textual meaning
(relating language to its ever changing context), interpersonal
meaning (allowing us to enact our social exchanges with others) and
ideational meaning (construing the logic through which we represent
the world we live in) -- are each achieved in part through
intonation. We make these meanings through choices: in terms of
locating the main rise or fall in an intonation contour; in terms
of fitting an intonation contour to part of a clause, to a whole
clause, or to more than a clause; and in terms of the shape of the
intonation contour. A CD ROM integrated with the book provides
examples as the systems of intonational choices are presented, and
also gives examples of these systems being drawn on in different
dialects of English, and in the many different exchange situations
in which speakers find themselves in the course of a day.
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.>
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