On Grammar Volume 1

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

• ISBN13: 9780826488220
• ISBN10: 0826488226
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-05
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This first volume of a ten volume series contains seventeen papers, including a new chapter entitled "A Personal Perspective", in which Halliday offers his own current perspective on language and linguistic theory. The first part of the book presents early papers (1957-66) on basic concepts such as system, structure, class, and rank. The second part highlights how, over the span of two decades (the 1960s to mid 980s), Halliday developed systemic theory to account for linguistic phenomena extending upward through the ranks from word to clause to text. The last part, "Construing and Abstracting", includes more recent work, in which Halliday discusses the issues confronting those who study linguistics, using Firth's description of linguistics-"language turned back on itself".

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction: a personal perspective	1	(16)
Professor M. A. K. Halliday
Section One: Early Papers on Basic Concepts
Editor's Introduction	17	(4)
Some aspects of systematic description and comparison in grammatical analysis	21	(16)
Categories of the theory of grammar	37	(58)
Class in relation to the axes of chain and choice in language	95	(11)
Some notes on `deep' grammar	106	(12)
The concept of rank: a reply	118	(40)
Appendix to Section One	127	(28)
Section Two: Word-Clause-Text
Editor's Introduction	155	(3)
Lexis as a linguistic level	158	(15)
Language structure and language function	173	(23)
Modes of meaning and modes of expression: types of grammatical structure and their determination by different semantic functions	196	(23)
Text semantics and clause grammar: how is a text like a clause?	219	(42)
Dimensions of discourse analysis: grammar	261	(30)
Section Three: Construing and Enacting
Editor's Introduction	289	(2)
On the ineffability of grammatical categories	291	(32)
Spoken and written modes of meaning	323	(29)
How do you mean?	352	(17)
Grammar and daily life: concurrence and complementarity	369	(15)
On grammar and grammatics	384	(35)
Bibliography	419	(14)
Index	433