Synopses & Reviews
The Bloomsbury Companion to M. A. K. Halliday is a comprehensive and accessible reference resource to one of the world's leading and most influential linguists.
Born in 1925, Halliday is the figure most responsible for the development of systemic functional linguistics (SFL). The impact of his work extends beyond linguistics, into the study of stylistics, computation linguistics, visual narrative and multimodal communication. He is considered a founder of the field of social semiotics. Written by leading figures in the field, the volume provides readers with an authoritative overview of his early career, his most important theoretical findings and how his work has influenced linguistics as a discipline. From the publishers of his 'Collected Works' and 'The Essential Halliday', this is another must have book underlining Halliday's era-defining impact on the field of linguistics.
About the Author
Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong.
Professor M. A. K. Halliday is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia and one of the world's most renowned linguists and Honorary Professor in the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong.
Table of Contents
Part I: Halliday's Life
1. A Brief Biography
, J. Webster Part II: Halliday: the making of a mind 2. The 'History of Ideas' and Halliday's natural science of meaning,
David Butt 3. Michael Halliday in China - Legacy and Advances from WANG Li,
Alex Peng 4. J. R. Firth,
Braj Kachru 5. Marxist Orientations,
M.A.K. Halliday 6. The Evolution of a social semiotic: Halliday and the social sciences,
R. Hasan Part III: Halliday: Ideas about Language 7. Halliday on Language,
C.M.I.M. Matthiessen 8. Language as a probabilistic system,
C.M.I.M. Matthiessen
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. Language development in early childhood: Learning how to mean,
Jane Torr 10. Halliday the grammarian: Axial foundations,
Jim Martin 11. Intonation,
Brad Smith and W. S. Greaves 12. Text & Discourse: the analysis of language in use
, J. Webster 13. Halliday as an international educator,
G. Williams 14. A Linguistics of Style, Halliday on Literature,
A. LukinPart IV: Directions of Development from Halliday 15. Semantic variation: its place, and its tool power, in linguistics,
David Butt 16. Halliday's three functions and their interaction in the interpretation of painting and music,
M. O'Toole
17. Multimodal semiosis and semiotics,
K. O'Halloran 18. Halliday's contributions to a theory of translation,
Erich Steiner 19. Halliday in relation to language comparison and typology,
Kazuhiro Teruya 20. Computational Linguistics: the Halliday connection,
J. Bateman and Mike O'Donnell 21. The network edge: Network building as theory building in Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics,
Alison Moore Index
ContributorsJ. Bateman, Bremen University, Germany \ David Butt, Macquarie University, Australia \ W.S. Greaves, York University, Toronto, Canada \ M.A.K. Halliday, University of Sydney, Australia \ Ruqaiya Hasan, Macquarie University, Australia \ Braj Kachru, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, USA \ Annabelle Lukin, Macquarie University, Australia \ Jim Martin, University of Sydney, Australia \ C.M.I.M. Matthiessen, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong \ Alison Moore, University of Wollongong, Australia \ Mick O'Donnell, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain \ Kay O'Halloran, National University of Singapore, Singapore \ M. O'Toole, Murdoch University, Australia \ Alex Peng, Beijing Normal University, China \ Brad Smith, University of Melbourne, Australia \ Erich Steiner, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany \ Kazuhiro Teruya, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong \ Jane Torr, Macquarie University, Australia \ J.J. Webster, City University Hong Kong, Hong Kong \ Geoff Williams, University of Sydney, Australia