Bloomsbury Companion to Systemic Functional Linguistics

by Halliday, M.A.K.; Webster, Jonathan J.

• ISBN13: 9780826494481
• ISBN10: 082649448X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-18
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Designed to be the essential one-volume resource for students and researchers on Systemic Functional Linguistics.

Author Biography

Professor M. A. K. Halliday (b. 1925) was Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia, until his retirement and has taught as a Visiting Professor around the world. As a self-styled 'generalist' he has published in many branches of linguistics. Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Ideas & new directions	p. 12
Methods - techniques - problems	p. 59
Language development	p. 87
Language and other primate species	p. 104
Linguistic computing	p. 113
Corpus-based research	p. 128
Clinical applications	p. 143
Discourse studies	p. 154
The place of context in a systemic functional model	p. 166
Stylistic analysis: construing aesthetic organisation	p. 190
Resources and courses	p. 216
Keywords	p. 229
References	p. 254
Index	p. 293
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