Language and Society: Volume 10 [Paperback]

A major enterprise comparable to a grand retrospective of the painting of some prominent artist of a distinctive school. Roy Harris, Times Literary Supplement. The tenth volume in Professor M.A.K. Halliday's collected works includes papers focusing on Language and Society. The papers provide a framework for understanding the social meaning of language, and the relation of language to other social phenomena. The volume begins with Professor Halliday's ground-breaking work on the users and uses of language. Subsequent chapters are organized around a discussion of sociolinguistic theory, and the relation between language and social class and social structure.An examination and analysis of the relationship between language and society, by Professor M.A.K. Halliday. Everyone will come away from this reading and re-reading of Michael Halliday's writings on language and society with a different insight: for me it is two matters; every person's capacity for creativity in exploiting meaning potential, and the central importance of establishing a unifying system able not only to capture form but to relate it consequentially and functionally to our understandings of social life. Chris Candlin, Senior Research Professor, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Chris Candlin, Senior Research Professor, Macquarie University, Sydney

Preface
Acknowledgments
PART 1: USERS AND USES
Editor's Introduction
1. The Users and Uses of Language
PART 2: SOCIOLINGUISTIC THEORY
Editor's Introduction
2. Language in a Social Perspective
3. Language and Social Man
4. Sociological Aspects of Semantic Change
5. Language as Social Semiotic: Towards a General Sociolinguistic Theory
6. Some Aspects of Sociolinguistics
PART 3: LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL CLASS
Editor's Introduction
7. 'Foreword' to Basil Bernstein's Class, Codes and Control Vol. II: Applied Studies towards a Sociology of Language
8. Language and the Theory of Codes