On Language and Linguistics

by M.A.K. Halliday

The third volume in the collected works of Professor M.A.K. Halliday, On Language and Linguistics , includes eighteen chapters exploring different aspects of language from a systemic functional perspective. These are organized into three sections: the place of linguistics as a discipline; linguistics and language; and language as social semiotic. In addition, there is a new work from Professor Halliday, entitled 'The architecture of language' in which he focuses on the assumptions or working hypotheses that enabled him to explore important questions about this massive semiotic power called 'language'.

Genres: Linguistics

490 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2003

About the author

Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday is a British-born Australian linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistic model of language.