Books in the Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday series

Now available in paperback, this eighth volumein the Collected Work Series offers a detailed survey of the Chinese language by eminent linguist M.A.K. Halliday. >

Webster presents an edited collection of works by British linguist, M. A. K. Halliday, written between the 1970s and 1990s, and based on Halliday's intensive study as a participant-observer of his own son, Nigel, and his developing language skills.

For nearly half a century, Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insights into the social semiotic phenomenon we call language. This ten-volume series presents the seminal works of Professor Halliday. Linguistic studies of text and discourse is the second in a series of volumes presenting the collected works of Professor M.A.K. Halliday. The papers in this volume focus on the application of systemic functional grammar to the analysis of texts, both highly-valued and everyday, both written and spoken. Presenting detailed linguistic analyses of specific texts, ranging from the highly-valued by such authors as William Golding, J.B. Priestly, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Charles Darwin, to the more everyday variety, such as a fund-raising letter and part of a doctoral defense, Halliday explores the power of grammar at work to create meaning, to change our lives for better or worse. Each text is studied as one would any kind of language, in terms of the linguistic resources that contribute to the realization of its ''meaning potential''. Not only are the analyses interesting for what they reveal about the texts under investigation, but also instructive in the practice and methods of systemic grammar analysis.

Covering the subject of language and education, this is the ninth volume in the "Collected Works of M A K Halliday". It contains nineteen papers covering a comprehensive breadth of topics in language and education addressed by Professor Halliday over the course of his career. It includes chapters on language development, and language teaching.

For nearly half a century, Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insights into the social semiotic phenomenon we call language. This ten volume series presents the seminal works of Professor Halliday.

Consisting of papers focusing on Language and Society, this tenth volume in Professor MAK Halliday's collected works provides a framework for understanding the social meaning of language, and the relation of language to other social phenomena. It begins with Professor Halliday's work on the users and uses of language.

This volume explores the semantic character of scientific discourse and the chapters are organised into two sections, one on grammatical metaphor, the other on scientific English. Halliday was Foundation Professor of Linguistics at University of Sydney.

Covers topics such as transitivity, theme-rheme, mood, and modality in English. This book also presents papers on English intonation and grammar including discussion of word order in English and the complex structures typical of informal spontaneous conversation.

Professor Halliday addressed the issue of the application of linguistic scholarship for Computational and Quantitative Studies. This volume includes works that span the last five decades, covering topics such as machine translation; the early years; and probalilistic grammar. Halliday was at University of Sydney.