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