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

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
PART 1: USERS AND USES
Editor's Introduction
1. The Users and Uses of Language
PART 2: SOCIOLINGUISTIC THEORY
Editor's Introduction
2. Language in a Social Perspective
3. Language and Social Man
4. Sociological Aspects of Semantic Change
5. Language as Social Semiotic: Towards a General Sociolinguistic Theory
6. Some Aspects of Sociolinguistics
PART 3: LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL CLASS
Editor's Introduction
7. ‘Foreword' to Basil Bernstein's Class, Codes and Control Vol. II: Applied Studies towards a Sociology of Language
8. Language and the Theory of Codes
PART 4: LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
Editor's Introduction
9. An Interpretation of the Functional Relationship between Language and Social Structure
10. Anti-languages
Bibliography

About the author

Professor M. A. K. Halliday (b. 1925) was Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia, until his retirement and has taught as a Visiting Professor around the world. As a self-styled 'generalist' he has published in many branches of linguistics. Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong.

Foreword

An examination and analysis of the relationship between language and society, by Professor M.A.K. Halliday.

Product details

• Authors: M a K Halliday, M. A. K. Halliday, M.A.K. Halliday, Jonathan J Webster, Jonathan J. Webster
• Assisted by: Jonathan J. Webster (Editor), Webster Jonathan J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2007
• EAN: 9780826458766
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-5876-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Collected Works of M.A.K. Hall; Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday; Collected Works of M.A.K. Hall
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Language teaching & learning material & coursework, Language teaching and learning material and coursework