内容简介
This third volume in the Collected Works of M.A.K.Halliday series includes papers that explore different aspects of language from a systemic functional perspective.The papers are organized into three sections:the place of linguistics as a discipline;linguistics and language; and language as social semiotic.In addition,there is a new work from Professor Halliday,entitled'On the"architecture"of human language,'in which he focuses on the assumptions or working hypotheses that enabled him to explore important questions about this massive semiotic power called'language'.
作者简介：
Professor M.A.K.Halliay(b.1925)was Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney until his retirement and has taught as a Visiting Professor around the world.As a self-styled'generalist'hehas published in many branches of linguistics.
目录
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction:On the"architecture"of human language
PART ONE:THE PLACE OF LINGUISICS AS A DISCIPLINE
Ediror's introduction
1 Syntax and the consumer(1964)
2 Grammar,society and the noun(1966)
3 The context of linguistics(1975)
4 Ideas about language(1977)
5 Language and the order of nature(1987)
6 New ways of meaning:the challenge to applied linguistics(1990)
PART TWO:LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE
Editor's introduction
7 Abrief sketch of systemic grammar(1969)
8 Systemic background(1985)
9 Systemic grammar and the concept of a "science of language"(1992)
10 Language in a changing world (1993)
11 A recent view of"missteps"in linguistic theory(1995)
12 Linguistics as metaphor(1997)
13 Is the grammar neutral?Is the grammarian ncutral?(2001)
PART THREE:LNGUAGE AS SOCIAL SEMIOTIC
Editor's introduction
14 The functional basis of language(1973)
15 Towards a sociological semantics(1972)
16 Towards a sentence(1992)
17 The act of meaning(1992)
18 On language in relation to the evolution of human consciousness(1995)
Appendix:Systemic theory(1994)
Bibliography
Index
