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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.
Synopsis
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
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Table of Contents
Preface Acknowledgments
PART 1: USERS AND USES Editor's Introduction1. 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