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Table of contents
Volume I
Contributorsxiii
Comprehensive bibliography of books and articlesxxiii 1. Starting Points
Sentence patterns and predicate classes3 On two starting points of communication23 The position of Czech linguistics in theme-focus research47 J.R. Firth in retrospect: a view from the eighties57 Daniel Jones' “classical” model of pronunciation training: an applied linguistic revaluation69 The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching revisited79 2. Language Development
“Don't you get bored speaking only English?”: Expressions of metalinguistic awareness in a bilingual child85 Toward practical theory: Halliday applied105 Development of referential cohesion in a child's monologues119 Exploring the textual properties of “proto-reading”137 Before speaking: across cultures163 Sharing makes sense: intersubjectivity and the making of an infant's meaning177 The development of conversation201 3. Sign, Context and Change
For Michael Halliday: in hoc signo vinces: sign design231 George Herbert's Love III and its many mansions233 The past and prejudice: toward de-mythologizing the English canon245 Writing systems and language change in English257 On the major diseases of linguistics with some suggested cures and antidotes269 “Breaking the Seal of Time”: the pragmatics of poetics281 The use of systemic linguistics in translation analysis and criticism293 Le graphémique et l'iconique dans le message305 Order and entropy in natural language315 The practice and theory of translation347 4. Language Around the World
Grammatical relations, semantic roles and topic-comment structure in a New Guinea Highland language: Harway355 Toward a bilingual dictionary of idioms: Hindi-English367 Mind your language: conscious and unconscious structuring in Swahili379 Communicative functions of particles in Singapore English391 Place-name study in Japan403 Teaching English as a second language in India: focus on objectives417 The impersonal verb construction in Australian languages425 Semantics and world view in languages of the Santa Cruz Archipelago, Solomon Islands439 References453
Volume II
Contributorsxi
1. The Design of Language
Reproductive furniture and extinguished professors3 English intensifiers and their idiosyncrasies15 The tradition of structural analogy33 Syspro: a computerized method for writing system networks and deriving selection expressions45 Cultural, situational and modal labels in dictionaries of English65 Morphological islands: constraint or preference?71 English quantifiers from noun sources95 Two types of semantic widening and their relation to metaphor107 The indefinite article and the numeral one123 2. Text and Discourse
A comparison of process types in Poe and Melville131 Intonation and the grammar of speech145 Some preliminary evidence for phonetic adjustment strategies in communication difficulty161 Evaluative text analysis181 Gobbledegook: the tyranny of linguistic conceits191 Text strategies: single, dual, multiple203 Finishing other's talk: some structural and pragmatic features of completion offers213 The textual basis of verbal inflections: the case of Yatzachi Zapotec237 On the concepts of “style” and “register” in sociolinguistics261 Social constraints on grammatical variables: tense choice in English281 Some phonological constraints on grammatical formations: examples from four languages307 Collocation: a progress report319 Linguistic analysis of real estate commission agreements in a civil law suit333 Antithesis: a study in clause combining and discourse structure359 3. Exploring Language as Social Semiotic
The hegemony of information385 Many sentences and difficult texts401 Explaining moments of conflict in discourse413 Is there a literary language?431 Coherence in language and culture451 Semiotics of document design461 Notes on critical linguistics481 Grammar, society and the pronoun493 The structure of situations and the analysis of text507 The place of socio-semiotics in contemporary thought523 4. An Interview with Michael Halliday601 References629
