LINGUIST List 17.2169

Fri Jul 28 2006

Books: Discourse Analysis/Semantics: Halliday, Webster (Ed)

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Directory         1.    Simone Gilson, Language of Science: Halliday, Webster (Ed)
Message 1: Language of Science: Halliday, Webster (Ed)
Date: 24-Jul-2006
From: Simone Gilson <sgilsoncontinuumbooks.com>
Subject: Language of Science: Halliday, Webster (Ed)


Title: Language of Science Series Title: Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday Published: 2006 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
                http://www.continuumbooks.com

Author: M. A. K. Halliday Editor: Jonathan J Webster, City University of Hong Kong Paperback: ISBN: 0826488277 Pages: 272 Price: U.K. £ 25.00
Abstract:

'Halliday's investigations into grammatical metaphor take us deeply intothe way we construct and expand meanings, starting with representations ofconcrete experienced events and ending with theoretical worlds populated byabstract entities linked through generalized relations and causalities. Hefinds these processes most strikingly in the development of the modernsciences that have historically created robust virtual worlds of theoryfrom observable material events. He sees the same processes of grammaticalmetaphor as children learn to participate in our built symbolicenvironment, particularly as they are introduced to these meaning systemsin schools, an institution designed expressly for that purpose.'Professor Charles Bazerman, University of California, Santa Barbara.

The fifth volume of the collected works of Professor M.A.K. Halliday, 'TheLanguage of Science' explores "the semantic character of scientificdiscourse." The chapters are organized into two sections, one being ongrammatical metaphor; the other dealing with scientific English. Inlanguage, there exists the potential for constructing new discourses, amongthem scientific discourse. The volume opens with a new work from ProfessorHalliday addressing the question, "How big is a language?" It is a questionthat goes to the heart of the paradigmatic complexity, or meaningpotential, that characterizes language.

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis                             Semantics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Written In: English (eng )

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