| The Essential Halliday Contributor(s): Halliday, M. a. K. (Author), Webster, Jonathan J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0826495346 ISBN-13: 9780826495341 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $242.55 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2009 Annotation: The Essential Halliday contains selected articles by M.A.K Halliday on the core areas of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Presenting a thorough survey of Hallidays published work across five decades, the reader includes discussion of function, metafuncti |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 410 |
| LCCN: 2008028704 |
| Physical Information: 1.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.90 lbs) 480 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Essential Halliday contains selected articles by M A K Halliday on the core areas of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Presenting a thorough survey of Halliday's published work across five decades, the reader includes discussion of function, metafunction, grammar, metaphor, learning and teaching language, child language, computational linguistics, semantics, social semiotics and discourse analysis. Detailed cross references and suggestions for further reading guide the reader to other articles of interest. This comprehensive reader is an indispensable guide to the work of M A K Halliday. It will be an invaluable resource for students and researchers of Systemic Functional Linguistics. |
Contributor Bio(s): Webster, Jonathan J.: - 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). |