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Title The Essential Halliday
 
Author(s) Halliday, M. A. K.
Webster, Jonathan J., ed.
Local Call Num. P 149 .H33 2009
ISBN 978-0-8264-9535-8
0-8264-9535-4
Status This item is currently IN the library.
Pages viii, 472 p.
Publishing Info New York, NY Continuum. 2009
Loan Type/Days REG-Regular / This item may circulate for 21 Days
Department MIS-Miscellaneous
Media BK-Book
Subjects Systemic grammar.
Functionalism (Linguistics)
 
Description ill.; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-465) and index.

Contents:
Act(s) of meaning -- Complementarity and complexity in language -- Context of culture and of situation -- Function in language -- Grammatical metaphor -- Grammatics -- Indeterminacy in language -- Intonation -- Language teaching, learning and development -- Linguistic computing -- Markedness -- Metafunctions -- Quantifying language -- Semantic system -- Semiotics -- Structure and rank -- Text and discourse analysis -- Theory and description -- Trinocular vision -- Varieties and variation in language : dialect, register, code.