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An Introduction to Functional Grammar
Taylor & Francis Ltd 2004; US$ 65.00This third edition of An Introduction to Functional Grammar has been extensively revised. While retaining the organization and coverage of the earlier editions, it incorporates a considerable amount of new material. more...
Writing Science
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 155.00This book is about the use of language in the science classroom. It discusses the evolution of scientific discourse for learning in secondary schools, and examines the form and function of language across a variety of levels including lexiogrammar, discourse semantics, register, genre and ideology. Special attention is paid to how this knowledge is... more...
Intonation in the Grammar of English
Equinox Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 23.70Intonation in the Grammar of English is written for scholars interested in language, but not necessarily linguists or phoneticians. An introduction covers speech sound, locating it in relation to other phenomena and disciplines, discussing its representation and interpretation, and introducing the systems and strata which frame its analysis in terms... more...
Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics
Continuum International Publishing 2004; US$ 130.00Perspectives in Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics offers an introduction to words and corpus linguistics. From this foundation it explores the much wider issues that are inevitably raised but somehow marginalized in lexicology (the study of words) and corpus linguistics: how are individual words integrated into language? What are the real benefits... more...
Systemic Functional Grammar of French
Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 150.00'[The] consistent interplay between theoretical and applied pursuits has always been a defining feature of systemic functional theory... This kind of mutual enrichment is clearly demonstrated in Alice Caffarel's work. The result is a description which penetrates to the heart of the language, revealing it at one and the same time as a specimen... more...
Brain, Mind and the Signifying Body
Continuum International Publishing 2004; US$ 39.95Brain, Mind and the Signifying Body is an exploration of a multimodal theory of cognitive science. Using linguistic theories first developed by Saussure and more latterly by M. A. K. Halliday, Paul Thibault analyses how social and biological systems interact to produce meaning. This fascinating study will be of interest to undergraduates and academics... more...
Computational and Quantitative Studies, 6
Continuum International Publishing 2004; US$ 140.00In the course of his career, Professor Halliday has continued to address the issue of the application of linguistic scholarship for computational and quantitative studies. The sixth volume in the collected works of Professor M. A. K. Halliday includes works that span the last five decades, covering such topics as machine translation: the early years;... more...
On Grammar, 1
Continuum International Publishing 2002; US$ 170.00This first volume in a series presenting the collected works of Professor M.A.K. Halliday contains seventeen papers, including a new piece titled "A Personal Perspective" in which Professor Halliday offers his own perspective on language and linguistic theory as covered in his collected works. The first part presents early papers (1957-1966)... more...
On Language and Linguistics, 3
Continuum International Publishing 2003; US$ 170.00The third volume in the collected works of Professor M.A.K. Halliday, On Language and Linguistics, includes eighteen papers exploring different aspects of language from a systemic functional perspective. The papers are organized into three sections: the place of linguistics as a discipline; linguistics and language; and language as social semiotic.... more...
Language of Early Childhood, 4
Continuum International Publishing 2004; US$ 170.00The Language of Early Childhood is the fourth volume in the collected works of Professor M.A.K. Halliday. Eighteen papers looking at the development of early childhood language are presented over three sections: infancy and protolanguage; transition from childhood tongue to mother tongue; early language and learning. The sociolinguistic account of... more...









