Language and Society

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-5876-6
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 646 g

Reihe: Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday

Examines and analyses the relationship between language and society

The final volume in the 10 Volume M.A.K. Halliday series
- Language and Society is a key topic linguistics and sociolinguistics
- M.A.K Halliday is one of the most influential linguistics of the twentieth-century.

The tenth volume in Professor M.A.K. Halliday's collected works consist of papers focusing on Language and Society. The chapters provide a framework for understanding the social meaning of language, and the relation of language to other social phenomena. The volume begins with Professor Halliday's ground-breaking work on the users and uses of language. Subsequent chapters are organized around a discussion of sociolinguistic theory, and the relation between language, social class and social structure.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Halliday, M. A. K.

Webster, Jonathan J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
PART ONE: USERS AND USES
Editor’s Introduction
1. The Users and Uses of Language
PART TWO: SOCIOLINGUISTIC THEORY
Editor’s Introduction
2. Language in a Social Perspective
3. Language and Social Man
4. Sociological Aspects of Semantic Change
5. Language as Social Semiotic: Towards a General Sociolinguistic Theory
6. Some Aspects of Sociolinguistics
PART THREE: LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL CLASS
Editor’s Introduction
7. ‘Foreword’ to Basil Bernstein’s Class, Codes and Control Vol. II: Applied Studies towards a Sociology of Language
8. Language and the Theory of Codes
PART FOUR: LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
Editor’s Introduction
9. An Interpretation of the Functional Relationship between Language and Social Structure
10. Anti-languages
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Professor M. A. K. Halliday (b. 1925) was Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia, until his retirement and has taught as a Visiting Professor around the world. As a self-styled ‘generalist’ he has published in many branches of linguistics.
Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong.