Language and Society - Volume 10

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

• Authors: M a K Halliday, M. A. K. Halliday, Jonathan J Webster, Jonathan J. Webster
• Assisted by: Jonathan J. Webster (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2009
• EAN: 9781847065773
• ISBN: 978-1-84706-577-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Collected Works of M.A.K. Hall; Collected Works of M.A.K. Hall
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics