On language and linguistics / M.A.K. Halliday ; edited by Jonathan Webster

Originally published: 2003

ontents Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: On the "architecture" of human language PART ONE: THE PLACE OF LINGUISTICS AS A DISCIPLINE Editor's introduction 1 Syntax and the consumer (1964) 2 Grammar, society and the noun (1966) 3 The context of linguistics (1975) 4 Ideas about language (1977) 5 Language and the order of nature (1987) 6 New ways of meaning: the challenge to applied linguistics (1990) PART TWO: LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE Editor's introduction 7 A brief sketch of systemic grammar (1969) 8 Systemic background (1985) 9 Systemic grammar and the concept of a "science of language" (1992) 10 Language in a changing world (1993) 11 A recent view of "missteps" in linguistic theory (1995) 12 Linguistics as metaphor (1997) 13 Is the grammar neutral? Is the grammarian neutral? (2001) PART THREE: LANGUAGE AS SOCIAL SEMIOTIC Editor's introduction 14 The functional basis of language (1973) 15 Towards a sociological semantics (1972) 16 The history of a sentence (1992) 17 The act of meaning (1992) 18 On language in relation to the evolution of human consciousness (1995) Appendix: Systemic theory (1994) Bibliography Index

Includes bibliographical references and index