On Language and Linguistics (Hardcover)

Introduction: on the "architecture" of human language Professor M. A. K. Halliday Section One: The Place of Linguistics as a Discipline Editor's Introduction 1. Syntax and the Consumer 2. Grammar, Society and the Noun 3. The Context of Linguistics 4. Ideas about Language 5. Language and the Order of Nature 6. New Ways of Meaning: the challenge to applied linguistics Section Two: Linguistics and Language Editor's Introduction 7. A Brief Sketch of Systemic Grammar 8. Systemic Background 9. Systemic Grammar and the Concept of a "Science of Language" 10. Language in a Changing World 11. A Recent View of "Missteps" in Linguistic Theory 12. Linguistics as Metaphor 13. Is the Grammar Neutral? Is the Grammarian Neutral? Section Three: Language as Social Semiotic Editor's Introduction 14. The Functional Basis of Language 15. Towards a Sociological Semantics 16. The History of a Sentence 17. The Act of Meaning 18. On Language in Relation to the Evolution of Human Consciousness Appendix: Systemic Theory