Language and Society Volume 10

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

• ISBN13: 9780826458766
• ISBN10: 0826458769
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-31
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This volume provides a framework for understanding the social meaning of language, and the relation of language to other social phenomena. Includes the groundbreaking work: 'The Users and Uses of Language'.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Users and Uses
Editor's Introduction	p. 3
The Users and Uses of Language (1964)	p. 5
Sociolinguistic Theory
Editor's Introduction	p. 41
Language in a Social Perspective (1971)	p. 43
Language and Social Man (1974)	p. 65
Sociological Aspects of Semantic Change (1975)	p. 131
Language as Social Semiotic: Towards a General Sociolinguistic Theory (1975)	p. 169
Aspects of Sociolinguistic Research (1975)	p. 203
Language and Social Class
Editor's Introduction	p. 221
Foreword to Basil Bernstein's Class, Codes and Control Vol. 2: Applied Studies towards a Sociology of Language (1973)	p. 223
Language and the Theory of Codes (1994)	p. 231
Language and Social Structure
Editor's Introduction	p. 249
An Interpretation of the Functional Relationship between Language and Social Structure (1978)	p. 251
Anti-languages (1976)	p. 265
Afterword	p. 287
Bibliography	p. 289
Index	p. 303
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