This study deals with the linguistic study of texts as a way of understanding how language functions in its immensely varied range of social contexts. The authors adopt a functional approach to language, in which the different registers or functional varieties of a language are explained by reference to the different contexts in which they occur. Their analysis reveals how, on the one hand, each text is unique, while on the other, the way a text is organized and the kinds of coherence it displays are closely related to the place and the value that it has in its social and cultural environment.

Language, Context, and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social-Semiotic Perspective (Language Education)

Literature & Fiction

Halliday, M.A.K.

Hasan, Ruqaiya

Christie, Frances

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

This book takes as its central theme the relationship between verbal art and language. After first establishing a methodology, Hasan goes on to present a detailed analysis of how verbal art is constructed out of language, using a poem and a short story as examples. She then provides the theoretical framework, arguing that the understanding and evaluation of verbal art logically depends on an explicit understanding of human language as a socially shared resource for meaning.

Linguistics, Language and Verbal Art (Language Education)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Linguistics, Language & Verbal Art (Ecs805 Specialised Curriculum: Language and Learning)

Hyperion Books

Discourse and Negotiation examines the use of questions and answers in English discourse, from a systemic functional perspective. The book examines why people use questions in discourse and how Speech Act and SF theory can be used to highlight the structures of information inherent in question and answer exchanges. Ruqaiya Hasan provides a thorough analysis of the semantics and grammar of such exchanges, to show how questions unconsciously permeate discourse.  This impeccably researched monograph by a theorist at the forefront of systemic functional linguistics will be of interest to academics in the fields of discourse analysis, stylistics and pragmatics.

Negotiating Information: The Semantics and Grammar of Questions and Answers

Words, Language & Grammar

Continuum Intl Pub Group

Language Development: Learning Language, Learning Culture--Meaning and Choice in Language: Studies for Michael Halliday, Volume 1 (Advances in Discourse Processes)

Martin, James R. Professor

Business & Money

Praeger

Cohesion in English is concerned with a relatively neglected part of the linguistic system: its resources for text construction, the range of meanings that are speciffically associated with relating what is being spoken or written to its semantic environment. A principal component of these resources is 'cohesion'. This book studies the cohesion that arises from semantic relations between sentences. Reference from one to the other, repetition of word meanings, the conjunctive force of but, so, then and the like are considered. Further, it describes a method for analysing and coding sentences, which is applied to specimen texts.

Cohesion in English (English Language, 9)

Routledge

Table of Contents:   Volume One   Part One: The Beginnings  1. M.A.K. Halliday: The Early Years 1925-70 (Jonathan Webster, City University of Hong Kong); 2. The Development of Systemic-Functional Linguistics in China (Huang Guowen, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China); 3. SFL: A Working Model of Language (Christian Matthiessen, Macquarie University, and Ruqaiya Hasan)   Part Two: Around Language   4. Language and Society (Ruqaiya Hasan); 5. Method and Imagination in Halliday's Science of Linguistics (David Butt, University of Sydney); 6. Topics in Multimodality (Radan Martinec); 7. Interpersonal Gateway to Meaning and Mind (Paul Thibault, Universita Ca' Foscari di Venezia)   Part Three: With Language   8. What People Do to Know (Astika Kappagoda, University of Wollongong); 9. Developing Dimensions of an Educational Linguistics (Frances Christie, University of Sydney and Len Unsworth, University of New England, Australia); 10. Designing Literacy Pedagogy (J.R. Martin and David Rose); 11. Grammatics in Schools (Geoff Williams, University of Sydney); 12. SFL in Text Based Web-Enhanced Language Study (Carol Taylor Torsello and Anthony Baldry, both Universita di Padova); 13. SFL in Computational Contexts (Mick O'Donnell and John Bateman, University of Bremen); 14. Acquired Language Disorders Perspective (Elizabeth Armstrong, Macquarie University, Alison Ferguson, University of Newcastle, Australia, Lynne Mortensen, Macquarie University and Leanne Togher, University of Sydney); 15. SFL and the Study of Literature (Jonathan Webster and Annabelle Lukin); 16. Semantic Variation (Geoff Williams); 17. Halliday and Translation Theory (Erich Steiner, Universitat des Saarlandes)   Volume Two   Part Four: Inside Language   18. The 'Architecture' of LanguageAccording to Systemic Functional Theory (Christian Matthiessen); 19. From Microfunction to Metaphor (Clare Painter, University of New South Wales, Beverley Derewianka, University of Wollongong, and Jane Torr, Macquarie University); 20. The Work of Concepts (David Butt and Rebekah Wegener, Macquarie University; 21. Field in Multimodal Texts (Wendy Bowcher, Tokyo Gakugei University); 22. Models of Discourse (Carmel Cloran, University of Wollangong, Virginia Stuart-Smith and Lynne Young, Carleton University); 23. Unfolding Theme (Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool); 24. Semantic Networks (Ruqaiya Hasan, Carmel Cloran, Geoff Williams, University of Sydney, and Annabelle Lukin, Macquarie University); 25. Invoking Attitude (J.R. Martin, University of Sydney, and Susan Hood, University of Technology, Sydney) 26. Sydney SFL Grammar (Christian Matthiessen); 27. A Systemic-Functional Approach to the Typology of MOOD Process (Kazuhiro Teruya, Ernest Akerejola, Macquarie University, Alice Caffarel, University of Sydney, Julia Lavid, Universidade Computense, Christian Matthiessen, Uwe Helm Petersen, Odense Universitet, Flemming Smedegaard, Odense Universitet, Thomas Hestbaek Andersen, Odense Universitet, and Pattama Patpong, Macquarie University); 28. Auxiliary Extensions (Robin Fawcett, Cardiff University); 29. Between Lexis and Grammar (Gordon Tucker, Cardiff University); 30. Intonation in Systemic Functional Linguistics (William Greaves, York University, Canada).  1000p, 2 vols. (Equinox Publishing 2005 (vol 1), 2007 (vol 2))

Continuing Discourse on Language: A Functional Perspective, Volumes 1 and 2

University of Toronto Press

Table of Contents: Volume One Part One: The Beginnings 1. M.A.K. Halliday: The Early Years 1925-70 (Jonathan Webster, City University of Hong Kong); 2. The Development of Systemic-Functional Linguistics in China (Huang Guowen, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China); 3. SFL: A Working Model of Language (Christian Matthiessen, Macquarie University, and Ruqaiya Hasan) Part Two: Around Language 4. Language and Society (Ruqaiya Hasan); 5. Method and Imagination in Halliday's Science of Linguistics (David Butt, University of Sydney); 6. Topics in Multimodality (Radan Martinec); 7. Interpersonal Gateway to Meaning and Mind (Paul Thibault, Universita Ca' Foscari di Venezia) Part Three: With Language 8. What People Do to Know (Astika Kappagoda, University of Wollongong); 9. Developing Dimensions of an Educational Linguistics (Frances Christie, University of Sydney and Len Unsworth, University of New England, Australia); 10. Designing Literacy Pedagogy (J.R. Martin and David Rose); 11. Grammatics in Schools (Geoff Williams, University of Sydney); 12. SFL in Text Based Web-Enhanced Language Study (Carol Taylor Torsello and Anthony Baldry, both Universita di Padova); 13. SFL in Computational Contexts (Mick O'Donnell and John Bateman, University of Bremen); 14. Acquired Language Disorders Perspective (Elizabeth Armstrong, Macquarie University, Alison Ferguson, University of Newcastle, Australia, Lynne Mortensen, Macquarie University and Leanne Togher, University of Sydney); 15. SFL and the Study of Literature (Jonathan Webster and Annabelle Lukin); 16. Semantic Variation (Geoff Williams); 17. Halliday and Translation Theory (Erich Steiner, Universitat des Saarlandes) Volume Two Part Four: Inside Language 18. The 'Architecture' of LanguageAccording to Systemic Functional Theory (Christian Matthiessen); 19. From Microfunction to Metaphor (Clare Painter, University of New South Wales, Beverley Derewianka, University of Wollongong, and Jane Torr, Macquarie University); 20. The Work of Concepts (David Butt and Rebekah Wegener, Macquarie University; 21. Field in Multimodal Texts (Wendy Bowcher, Tokyo Gakugei University); 22. Models of Discourse (Carmel Cloran, University of Wollangong, Virginia Stuart-Smith and Lynne Young, Carleton University); 23. Unfolding Theme (Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool); 24. Semantic Networks (Ruqaiya Hasan, Carmel Cloran, Geoff Williams, University of Sydney, and Annabelle Lukin, Macquarie University); 25. Invoking Attitude (J.R. Martin, University of Sydney, and Susan Hood, University of Technology, Sydney) 26. Sydney SFL Grammar (Christian Matthiessen); 27. A Systemic-Functional Approach to the Typology of MOOD Process (Kazuhiro Teruya, Ernest Akerejola, Macquarie University, Alice Caffarel, University of Sydney, Julia Lavid, Universidade Computense, Christian Matthiessen, Uwe Helm Petersen, Odense Universitet, Flemming Smedegaard, Odense Universitet, Thomas Hestbaek Andersen, Odense Universitet, and Pattama Patpong, Macquarie University); 28. Auxiliary Extensions (Robin Fawcett, Cardiff University); 29. Between Lexis and Grammar (Gordon Tucker, Cardiff University); 30. Intonation in Systemic Functional Linguistics (William Greaves, York University, Canada). 1000p, 2 vols. (Equinox Publishing 2005 (vol 1), 2007 (vol 2))

Language, Society and Consciousness: The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan Vol 1 (Collected Works of Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen)

The chapters of this volume explore the intimate relations of society, language and mind: the development of each of these depends on the contribution of the other two. In this sense they are co-genetic: mind has recently been described by the famous neuro-scientist, Susan Greenfield, as 'personalized brain.' The development of human mind depends on what it experiences; for human beings, experience goes beyond sensation: it is made of meaning, and interpretation/meaning, in turn, is construed by the various semiotic modalities, of which language is perhaps the most flexible and most pervasive. But language has itself evolved in the course of attempts to reach an 'other.' By shaping the nature of communication, human relations shape also the nature of language; meanings exchanged in verbal interaction become a major force in shaping forms of consciousness; and our consciousness reveals itself in our cultural practices, our ways of being, doing and saying.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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