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.

Preface Acknowledgments PART 1: USERS AND USES Editor's Introduction1. The Users and Uses of LanguagePART 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 PART 4: LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE Editor's Introduction 9. An Interpretation of the Functional Relationship between Language and Social Structure 10. Anti-languages Bibliography