Language and Society (Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday): Volume 10 - Hardcover

M.A.K. Halliday

 
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Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

M.A.K. Halliday was Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney.

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 journal WORD, and the editor of the forthcoming Journal of World Languages (2014).

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ISBN 10:  1847065775 ISBN 13:  9781847065773
Publisher: Continuum, 2009
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