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Language Topics
Essays in honour of Michael Halliday
Volume 1
Editors
This volume in honour of Michael Halliday begins with a section on the background to the development of MAK’s ideas. The second section groups papers on language development in early childhood, which has always been one of Halliday’s main interests. The focus of the third section is on aspects of synchronic and diachronic change in language. Halliday has always emphasised the dynamic interaction between these two perspectives in relation to language use in social contexts. The final section caters to Halliday’s interest in ethnographic, anthropological and educational issues and explore language use in a diversity of world contexts.
[Not in series, LT 1] 1987. xxxii, 490 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 12 April 2011
Published online on 12 April 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Contributors | pp. xiii–xviii
- IntroductionRoss Steele | p. xix
- Comprehensive bibliography of books and articles by M.A.K. Halliday | pp. xxiii–xxxii
- 1. Starting Points
- Sentence patterns and predicate classesFrantisek Danes | p. 3
- On two starting points of communicationJan Firbas | p. 23
- The position of Czech linguistics in theme-focus researchPetr Sgall | p. 47
- J.R. Firth in retrospect: a view from the eightiesEugénie J.A. Henderson | p. 57
- Daniel Jones’ “classical” model of pronunciation training: an applied linguistic revaluationJohn L.M. Trim | p. 69
- The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching revisitedPeter Strevens | p. 79
- 2. Langauge Development
- “Don’t you get bored speaking only English?” — Expressions of meta-linguistic awareness in a bilingual childMichael Clyne | p. 85
- Toward practical theory: Halliday appliedJerome C. Harste | p. 105
- Development of referential cohesion in a child’s monologuesKatherine Nelson and Elena T. Levy | p. 119
- Exploring the textual properties of “proto-reading”Christine C. Pappas | p. 137
- Before speaking: across culturesJohn Regan, Zhao Shuming and Ziao-Ling Hong | p. 163
- Sharing makes sense: intersubjectivity and the making of an infant’s meaningColwyn Trevarthen | p. 177
- The development of conversationGordon Wells and Mary Gutfreund | p. 201
- 3. Sign, Context and Change
- TodayKenneth L. Pike | p. 229
- For Michael Halliday: in hoc signo vinces$$sign designThomas A. Sebeok | p. 231
- George Herbert’s Love III and its many mansionsR.J. Handscombe | p. 233
- The past and prejudice: toward de-mythologizing the English canonBraj B. Kachru | p. 245
- Writing systems and language change in EnglishAngus McIntosh | p. 257
- On the major diseases of linguistics with some suggested cures and antidotesAdam Makkai | p. 269
- “Breaking the Seal of Time”: the pragmatics of poeticsJacob L. Mey | p. 281
- The use of systemic linguistics in translation analysis and criticismPeter Newmark | p. 293
- Le graphémique et l’iconique dans le messageBernard Pottier | p. 305
- Order and entropy in natural languageAndrew Schiller | p. 315
- Sign and signifexW.C. Watt | p. 333
- The practice and theory of translationColin Yallop | p. 347
- 4. Language Around the World
- Grammatical relations, semantic roles and topic-comment structure in a New Guinea Highland language: HarwayBernard Comrie | p. 355
- Toward a bilingual dictionary of idioms: Hindi-EnglishYamuna Kachru | p. 367
- Mind your language: conscious and unconscious structuring in SwahiliJoan Maw | p. 379
- Communicative functions of particles in Singapore EnglishJohn Platt | p. 391
- Place-name study in JapanSeiji Shibata | p. 403
- Teaching English as a second language in India: focus on objectivesShivendra K. Verma | p. 417
- The impersonal verb construction in Australian languagesMichael Walsh | p. 425
- Semantics and world view in languages of the Santa Cruz Archipelago, Solomon IslandsStephen A. Wurm | p. 439
- References | pp. 453–490
- Volume II
- Contributors | pp. Xi–xxxii
- 1. The Design of Language
- Reproductive furniture and extinguished professorsJean Aitchison | p. 3
- English intensifiers and their idiosyncrasiesDavid J. Allerton | p. 15
- The tradition of structural analogyJohn A. E. Anderson | p. 33
- Syspro: a computerized method for writing system networks and deriving selection expressionsMichael J. Cummings | p. 45
- Cultural, situational and modal labels in dictionaries of EnglishArthur Delbridge | p. 65
- Morphological islands: constraint or preference?Wolfgang U. Dressler | p. 71
- Some “dia-categories”Jeffrey O. Ellis | p. 81
- English quantifiers from noun sourcesAdrienne Lehrer | p. 95
- Two types of semantic widening and their relation to metaphorSamuel R. Levin | p. 107
- The indefinite article and the numeral oneJames P. Thorne | p. 123
- 2. Text and Discourse
- A comparison of process types in Poe and MelvilleJames D. Benson and William S. Greaves | p. 131
- Intonation and the grammar of speechDavid Brazil | p. 145
- Some preliminary evidence for phonetic adjustment strategies in communication difficultyJohn E. Clark, James F. Lubker and Sharon Hunnicutt | p. 161
- Evaluative text analysisMalcolm Coulthard | p. 181
- Gobbledegook: the tyranny of linguistic conceitsRobert D. Eagleson | p. 191
- Text strategies: single, dual, multipleNils Erik Enkvist | p. 203
- Finishing other’s talk: some structural and pragmatic features of completion offersAllen D. Grimshaw | p. 213
- The textual basis of verbal inflections: the case of Yatzachi ZapotecCarol C. Mock | p. 237
- On the concepts of “style” and “register” in sociolinguisticsFred C.C. Peng | p. 261
- Social phonological constraints on grammatical formations: examples from four languagesRobert H. Robins | p. 307
- Collocation: a progress reportJohn McH. Sinclair | p. 319
- Linguistic analysis of real estate commission agreements in a civil law suitRoger W. Shuy | p. 333
- Antithesis: a study in clause combining and discourse structureSandra A. Thompson and William C. Mann | p. 359
- 3. Exploring Language as Social Semiotic
- The hegemony of informationRichard W. Bailey | p. 385
- Many sentences and difficult textsMackie J.-V. Blanton | p. 401
- Explaining moments of conflict in discourseChristopher N. Candlin | p. 413
- Is there a literary language?Ronald Carter | p. 431
- Coherence in language and cultureBenjamin N. Colby | p. 451
- Semiotics of document designMary Ann Eiler | p. 461
- Notes on critical linguisticsRoger Fowler | p. 481
- Grammar, society and the pronounRichard A. Hudson | p. 493
- The structure of situations and the analysis of textBernard A. Mohan | p. 507
- The place of socio-semiotics in contemporary thoughtGordon Bruce McKellar | p. 523
- Changing the subjectTerry Threadgold | p. 549
- 4. An Interview with Michael HallidayPaul J. Thibault | p. 601
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