Studies in English Language Volume 7

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

• ISBN13: 9780826458735
• ISBN10: 0826458734
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-22
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

?Getting under the skin of a language? is an intriguing new work appearing in the seventh volume in this Collected Works of Professor M. A. K. Halliday, Studies in English Language. Topics covered in the papers from the section on ?Theoretical foundations? include transitivity, theme-rheme, mood, and modality in English. Other sections include papers on English intonation and grammar including discussion of word order in English and the complex structures typical of informal spontaneous conversation. The grammatical analysis of English also serve to demonstrate the application of linguistics to language teaching.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	x
Introduction: Towards an Appliable Description of the Grammar of a Language	xii
PART ONE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS	1	(204)
Editor's Introduction	3	(202)
1 Notes on Transitivity and Theme in English — Part 1	5	(50)
2 Notes on Transitivity and Theme in English — Part 2	55	(55)
3 Notes on Transitivity and Theme in English — Part 3	110	(44)
4 Options and Functions in the English Clause	154	(10)
5 Functional Diversity in Language, as Seen From a Consideration of Modality and Mood in English	164	(41)
PART TWO SPECIAL TOPICS	205	(28)
Editor's Introduction	207	(26)
6 On Being Teaching	209	(4)
7 It's a Fixed Word Order Language is English	213	(20)
PART THREE INTONATION AND GRAMMAR	233	(60)
Editor's Introduction	235	(52)
8 The Tones of English	237	(27)
9 Intonation in English Grammar	264	(23)
10 English Intonation as a Resource for Discourse	287	(6)
PART FOUR ANALYSES	293	(45)
Editor's Introduction	295	(2)
11 'The Teacher Taught the Student English': An Essay in Applied Linguistics	297	(9)
12 On the Grammar of Pain	306	(32)
Bibliography	338	(8)
Index	346