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Zusatztext "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. Informationen zum Autor 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). M.A.K. Halliday was Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. Vorwort Providing a thorough survey of five decades of M.A.K Halliday's published work on Systemic Functional Linguistics, this is an indispensable guide for students and researchers alike. Zusammenfassung Presents a survey of M A K Halliday's work on Systemic Functional Linguistics. This title contains selected articles by Halliday on the core areas of systemic functional linguistics. It includes discussion of function, metafunction, grammar, metaphor, learning and teaching language, child language, social semiotics and discourse analysis. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
