Table of Contents

Introduction - On the 'Architecture' of a Language by M. A. K. Halliday Part One: The Place of Linguistics as a Discipline 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 Part Two: Linguistics and Language
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? Part Three: Language as Social Semiotic
14. The Functional Basis of Language
15. Towards a Sociological Semantics
16. The History of a Science
17. The Act of Meaning
18. On Language in Relation to the Evolution of Human Consciousness
Appendix: Systemic Theory

About the Author

Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also the Managing Editor of the International Linguistics Association’s journal WORD, and the editor of the forthcoming Journal of World Languages (2014). M.A.K. Halliday was Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney.

Reviews

"This book is a very useful compendium of Halliday's most important ideas and achievements."   Reviewed in IH Journal, 2008