Date: 02-Mar-2009 From: Luke Roberts <lrobertscontinuumbooks.com> Subject: The Essential Halliday: Webster (Ed), Halliday E-mail this message to a friend
Title: The Essential Halliday
Published: 2009
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
http://www.continuumbooks.com
Author: Michael A. K. Halliday
Editor: Jonathan J. Webster
Hardback: ISBN: 9780826495 9780826495341 Pages: 488 Price: U.S. $ 150.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9780826495 9780826495341 Pages: 488 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0826495354 9780826495358 Pages: 488 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Paperback: ISBN: 0826495354 9780826495358 Pages: 488 Price: U.S. $ 49.95
Abstract:
"Distils the major insights from six decades of research by the foremost functional linguist of our times"- J. R. Martin, Professor of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia.
The Essential Halliday contains selected articles by M A K Halliday on the core areas of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Presenting a thorough survey of Halliday's published work across five decades, the reader includes discussion of function, metafunction, grammar, metaphor, learning and teaching language, child language, computational linguistics, semantics, social semiotics and discourse analysis. Detailed cross references and suggestions for further reading guide the reader to other articles of interest.
This comprehensive reader is an indispensable guide to the work of M A K Halliday. It will be an invaluable resource for students and researchers of Systemic Functional Linguistics.
Linguistic Field(s):
Applied Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Discourse Analysis
Semantics