The Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday (10 Volumes: Brief content descriptions) Continuum are offering 30% off each volume.
(Preface by Jonathan J. Webster to the first volume On Grammar)
For nearly half a century, Professor M.A.K Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insight into this social semiotic phenomenon we call language. His scholarship has advanced our understanding of language as an activity which is both rational and relational, systemic and semantic, dynamic and diverse. Building on the legacy of his mentor, Professor J.R. Firth, Halliday approaches language from the vantage point of meaning and purpose, and provides a sound theoretical framework for dealing with questions about how and why we come to use language as we do for being and becoming who we are.
Halliday's work has long attracted a wide audience, which includes linguists, educators, computer scientists and policy makers. What many find appealing in the man and his scholarship is his rejection, on the one hand, of the elitism typical of certain other schools of linguistics, while on the other hand embracing the study of that which powers language and also conditions our ways of thinking and behaving.
In this series, we present the collected works of Professor M.A.K. Halliday in ten volumes. Covering a wide range of topics related to language and linguistics, these are:
1. On Grammar Already Published
2. Linguisitic Studies of Text and Discourse Already Published
3. On Language and Linguistics Already Published
4 .The Language of Early Childhood Already Published
5. The Language of Science Already Published
6 . Computational and Quantitative Studies Already Published
7 . Sudies in English Language Already Published
8. Studies in Chinese Language Already Published
9. Language and Education
10. Language and SocietyHalliday approaches language from above, from below and from roundabout, but not from a distance. His collected works, as presented in these ten volumes, reflect his characteristic balance between formulating an applying linguistic theory. The depth of his insight into language is highlighted in such volumes as the present one On Grammar and the third volume On Language and Linguistics. The strength of his commitment to the study of language as it is actually used is demonstrated in the subsequet volumes dealing with Lingusitics Studies of Text and Discourse, The Language of Early Childhood and The Language of Science. The breadth of Halliday's interest in all things Language is glimpsed in the volumes Studies in English Language and Studies in Chinese Language. The application of his knowledge and experience as linguist and social scientist is visited in volumes Computational and Quantitative Studies, Language and Education and Language and Society.
The first volume contains fifteen papers, with the addition of a new piece entitled 'A personal perspective', in which Professor Halliday offers his own perspective on language and linguistic theory as covered in his collected works. The papers are divided into three sections according to the data they are written (which does not always correspond to the date of publication). The first secion presents early papers (1957 - 66) on basic concepts such as categories, structure, class and rank. Interestingly, the second section highlights how over the span of two decades (mid-1960s to md-1980s) Halliday developed systemic theory to account for linguistic phenomena extending upward through the ranks from word to clause to text. The third section includes more recent work in which Halliday discusses the issues confronting those who would study linguistics, or as Firth described it ' language turned back on itself'.
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The Collected Works
M A K Halliday
Edited by Jonathan Webster
Published by Continuum in 10 volumes
Each volume: 234 x 156 mm, ｣75.00 - 30% discount: ONLY ｣52.50
M A K Halliday
For nearly half a century, Professor M.A.K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insight into the social semiotic phenomenon we call language. He is one of the most influential of living linguists and now, for the first time, Continuum are publishing his entire collected works.
The volumes in the present series encompass all aspects of Halliday's work and cover the breadth of the linguistics discipline. They are an essential and definitive collection for any linguistics library.
Available Now
On Grammar (Volume 1)
This first volume contains seventeen papers, including a new piece entitled 'a personal perspective' , in which Professor Halliday offers his own views on language and linguistic theory as covered in his collected works. The first part presents early papers (1957-1966); the second part highlights how over the span of two decades (mid-60s to mid-80s) Halliday developed systemic theory to account for linguistic phenomena extending upward through the ranks from word to clause to text; the third part includes more recent work..
July 2002: 0826449441: 448pp
Linguistic Studies of Text and Discourse (Vol 2)
The papers in this volume focus on the application of systemic functional grammar to the analysis of texts.
December 2002: 0826458688: 320pp
Forthcoming
On Language and Linguistics (Volume 3)
Eighteen papers exploring different aspects of language from a systemic functional perspective are organized into three sections: the place of linguistics as a discipline; linguistics and language; and language as social semiotic. There is also a new work from Professor Halliday, entitled 'The architecture of language'.
June 2003: 0826458696: 448pp
The Language of Early Childhood (Volume 4)
The papers in this volume, looking at the development of early childhood language, are presented over three sections: infancy and protolanguage; transition from childhood tongue; and early language and learning.
September 2003: 082645870X: 352pp
The Language of Science (Volume 5)
This volume explores 'the semantic character of scientific discourse' and the chapters are organized into two sections: grammatical metaphor and scientific English.
December 2003: 0826458718: 288pp
Computational and Quantitative Studies (Vol 6)
Throughout his career Professor Halliday has addressed the issue of the application of linguistic scholarship for Computational and Quantitative Studies. This volume includes works that span the last five decades. February 2004: 0826458726: 256pp
Studies in English Language (Volume 7)
Includes 'Getting under the skin of a language' , an intriguing new work by Professor M.A.K. Halliday. Other topics covered include transitivity, theme-rheme, mood and modality in English, English intonation and grammar, and the power of word order in English.
August 2004: 0826458734: 384pp
Studies in Chinese Language (Volume 8)
This volume approaches the Chinese language from several interesting vantage points. It also includes Professor Halliday's PhD thesis, 'The Language of the Chinese Secret History of the Mongols'.
November 2004: 0826458742: 320pp
Language and Education (Volume 9)
Professor Halliday sums up the scope of language education under the following three headings: language learning; learning through language; and learning about language.
February 2005: 0826458750: 416pp
Language and Society (Volume 10)
The papers in this volume provide a framework for understanding the social meaning of language, and the relation of language to other social phenomena.
May 2005: 0826458769: 416pp
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