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Essays in honour of Michael Halliday. Volume 1
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Table of contents:- Contributors- Introduction- Comprehensive bibliography of books and articles by M.A.K. Halliday- 1. Starting Points- Sentence patterns and predicate classes- On two starting points of communication- The position of Czech linguistics in theme-focus research- J.R. Firth in retrospect- Daniel Jones' 'classical' model of pronunciation training- The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching revisited- 2. Langauge Development- 'Don't you get bored speaking only English?' 2; Expressions of meta-linguistic awareness in a bilingual child- Toward practical theory- Development of refe...
Table of contents:
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Comprehensive bibliography of books and articles by M.A.K. Halliday
- 1. Starting Points
- Sentence patterns and predicate classes
- On two starting points of communication
- The position of Czech linguistics in theme-focus research
- J.R. Firth in retrospect
- Daniel Jones' 'classical' model of pronunciation training
- The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching revisited
- 2. Langauge Development
- 'Don't you get bored speaking only English?' 2; Expressions of meta-linguistic awareness in a bilingual child
- Toward practical theory
- Development of referential cohesion in a child's monologues
- Exploring the textual properties of 'proto-reading'
- Before speaking
- Sharing makes sense
- The development of conversation
- 3. Sign, Context and Change
- Today
- For Michael Halliday
- George Herbert's Love III and its many mansions
- The past and prejudice
- Writing systems and language change in English
- On the major diseases of linguistics with some suggested cures and antidotes
- 'Breaking the Seal of Time'
- The use of systemic linguistics in translation analysis and criticism
- Le graphémique et l'iconique dans le message
- Order and entropy in natural language
- Sign and signifex
- The practice and theory of translation
- 4. Language Around the World
- Grammatical relations, semantic roles and topic-comment structure in a New Guinea Highland language
- Toward a bilingual dictionary of idioms
- Mind your language
- Communicative functions of particles in Singapore English
- Place-name study in Japan
- Teaching English as a second language in India
- The impersonal verb construction in Australian languages
- Semantics and world view in languages of the Santa Cruz Archipelago, Solomon Islands
- References
- Volume II
- Contributors
- 1. The Design of Language
- Reproductive furniture and extinguished professors
- English intensifiers and their idiosyncrasies
- The tradition of structural analogy
- Syspro
- Cultural, situational and modal labels in dictionaries of English
- Morphological islands
- Some 'dia-categories'
- English quantifiers from noun sources
- Two types of semantic widening and their relation to metaphor
- The indefinite article and the numeral one
- 2. Text and Discourse
- A comparison of process types in Poe and Melville
- Intonation and the grammar of speech
- Some preliminary evidence for phonetic adjustment strategies in communication difficulty
- Evaluative text analysis
- Gobbledegook
- Text strategies
- Finishing other's talk
- The textual basis of verbal inflections
- On the concepts of 'style' and 'register' in sociolinguistics
- Social phonological constraints on grammatical formations
- Collocation
- Linguistic analysis of real estate commission agreements in a civil law suit
- Antithesis
- 3. Exploring Language as Social Semiotic
- The hegemony of information
- Many sentences and difficult texts
- Explaining moments of conflict in discourse
- Is there a literary language?
- Coherence in language and culture
- Semiotics of document design
- Notes on critical linguistics
- Grammar, society and the pronoun
- The structure of situations and the analysis of text
- The place of socio-semiotics in contemporary thought
- Changing the subject
- 4. An Interview with Michael Halliday
- References
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Comprehensive bibliography of books and articles by M.A.K. Halliday
- 1. Starting Points
- Sentence patterns and predicate classes
- On two starting points of communication
- The position of Czech linguistics in theme-focus research
- J.R. Firth in retrospect
- Daniel Jones' 'classical' model of pronunciation training
- The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching revisited
- 2. Langauge Development
- 'Don't you get bored speaking only English?' 2; Expressions of meta-linguistic awareness in a bilingual child
- Toward practical theory
- Development of referential cohesion in a child's monologues
- Exploring the textual properties of 'proto-reading'
- Before speaking
- Sharing makes sense
- The development of conversation
- 3. Sign, Context and Change
- Today
- For Michael Halliday
- George Herbert's Love III and its many mansions
- The past and prejudice
- Writing systems and language change in English
- On the major diseases of linguistics with some suggested cures and antidotes
- 'Breaking the Seal of Time'
- The use of systemic linguistics in translation analysis and criticism
- Le graphémique et l'iconique dans le message
- Order and entropy in natural language
- Sign and signifex
- The practice and theory of translation
- 4. Language Around the World
- Grammatical relations, semantic roles and topic-comment structure in a New Guinea Highland language
- Toward a bilingual dictionary of idioms
- Mind your language
- Communicative functions of particles in Singapore English
- Place-name study in Japan
- Teaching English as a second language in India
- The impersonal verb construction in Australian languages
- Semantics and world view in languages of the Santa Cruz Archipelago, Solomon Islands
- References
- Volume II
- Contributors
- 1. The Design of Language
- Reproductive furniture and extinguished professors
- English intensifiers and their idiosyncrasies
- The tradition of structural analogy
- Syspro
- Cultural, situational and modal labels in dictionaries of English
- Morphological islands
- Some 'dia-categories'
- English quantifiers from noun sources
- Two types of semantic widening and their relation to metaphor
- The indefinite article and the numeral one
- 2. Text and Discourse
- A comparison of process types in Poe and Melville
- Intonation and the grammar of speech
- Some preliminary evidence for phonetic adjustment strategies in communication difficulty
- Evaluative text analysis
- Gobbledegook
- Text strategies
- Finishing other's talk
- The textual basis of verbal inflections
- On the concepts of 'style' and 'register' in sociolinguistics
- Social phonological constraints on grammatical formations
- Collocation
- Linguistic analysis of real estate commission agreements in a civil law suit
- Antithesis
- 3. Exploring Language as Social Semiotic
- The hegemony of information
- Many sentences and difficult texts
- Explaining moments of conflict in discourse
- Is there a literary language?
- Coherence in language and culture
- Semiotics of document design
- Notes on critical linguistics
- Grammar, society and the pronoun
- The structure of situations and the analysis of text
- The place of socio-semiotics in contemporary thought
- Changing the subject
- 4. An Interview with Michael Halliday
- References