On Language and Linguistics Volume 3

Eighteen papers explore aspects of language from a systemic functional perspective. They are organised into sections: the place of linguistics; linguistics and language; and language as social semiotic. This volume includes Halliday's new work 'The architecture of language'.

M. A. K. Halliday was born in Yorkshire in 1925. He was trained in Chinese for war service with the British Army; studied in China, taught Chinese in Britain for a number of years, then moved into linguistics, becoming in 1965 Professor of General Linguistics at University College London. In 1975 he was appointed Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, where he remained until his retirement Jonathan Webster received his PhD in linguistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is currently Acting Head, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, and Associate Dean (Research and Administration), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at the City University of Hong Kong

Preface

vii

Acknowledgements

ix

Introduction: On the "architecture" of human language

1

(32)

Professor M. A. K. Halliday

PART ONE: THE PLACE OF LINGUISTICS AS A DISCIPLINE

Editor's introduction

33

(3)

1 Syntax and the consumer (1964)

36

(14)

2 Grammar, society and the noun (1966)

50

(24)

3 The context of linguistics (1975)

74

(18)

4 Ideas about language (1977)

92

(24)

5 Language and the order of nature (1987)

116

(23)

6 New ways of meaning: the challenge to applied linguistics (1990)

139

(38)

PART TWO: LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE

Editor's introduction

177

(3)

7 A brief sketch of systemic grammar (1969)

180

(5)

8 Systemic background (1985)

185

(14)

9 Systemic grammar and the concept of a "science of language" (1992)

199

(14)

10 Language in a changing world (1993)

213

(19)

11 A recent view of "missteps" in linguistic theory (1995)

232

(16)

12 Linguistics as metaphor (1997)

248

(23)

13 Is the grammar neutral? Is the grammarian neutral? (2001)

271

(24)

PART THREE: LANGUAGE AS SOCIAL SEMIOTIC

Editor's introduction

295

(3)

14 The functional basis of language (1973)

298

(25)

15 Towards a sociological semantics (1972)

323

(32)

16 The history of a sentence (1992)

355

(20)

17 The act of meaning (1992)

375

(15)

18 On language in relation to the evolution of human consciousness (1995)

390

(43)

Appendix: Systemic theory (1994)

433

(10)

Bibliography

443

(26)

Index

469

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