Product Description: M. A. K. Halliday is widely regarded as the father of Systemic Functional Linguistics, as well as having contributed important work to fields such as sociolinguistics and language acquisition. This overview will enable readers to understand and appreciate the significance of Halliday's work...read more

Product Description: Language, as Whorf said, the the best show man puts on. And perhaps the most amazing performance in this repertory is verbal art, which thanks to the power of ordinary language, peoples the world with beings who although they do not exist hold a many-angled mirror to human life...read more

Product Description: Natural use of language is orderly - a fact that gets camouflaged by what has often been described a 'the messiness of language in use' but which, in fact, often arises from the permeability of social contexts: life's business is not compartmentalised...read more

Product Description: For nearly half a century Michael Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insight into the social semiotic phenomenon we call language. Now, for the first time, Halliday's collected works are available as a ten-volume set...read more

This is the seventh volume in the Collected Works of Professor M. A. K. Halliday: Studies in English Language. Topics covered in the papers from the section on "Theoretical foundations" include transitivity, theme-rhyme, mood, and modality in English. Other sections include papers on English intonation and grammar including discussion of word order in English and the complex structures typical of informal spontaneous conversation. The grammatical analyses of English also serve to demonstrate the application of linguistics to language teaching. "This is a fascinating volume, which is mainly devoted to Michael Halliday's thinking in the 1960s. The collection includes articles ranging from detailed innovative proposals for a description of intonation that would allow it to be incorporated into the grammar, through an ambitious re-orientation of the focus of grammatical description at a time when Systemic Grammar was emerging from Scale and Category, to a much later small-scale corpus investigation of the grammar of pain. Together they illustrate Halliday's continuing intellectual enthusiasm and openness to new linguistic trends, even though his own development has always been by accretion, rather than revolution. So, the reader is fascinated to discover how much of the early work has been retained, often in a considerably modified form, in the 21st century version of Systemic Functional Grammar." - Malcolm Coulthard, Professor of English Language and Linguistics, University of Birmingham, UK

Product Description: For nearly half a century Michael Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insight into the social semiotic phenomenon we call language. Now, for the first time, Halliday's collected works are available as a ten-volume set...read more

Product Description: The ninth volume in Professor M.A.K. Halliday's collected works is dedicated to the subject of language and education. Professor Halliday sums up the scope of language education under the following five headings: mother tongue education; second language learning; multilingual societies; contexts of language education; and educational linguistics...read more

Presents the selected writings of Professor Sydney M Lamb, including six works and several which have been re-worked for publication. This book includes papers offering insight into the man behind the pioneering approach to linguistics that might be summed up as 'linguistics to the beat of a different drummer.'