The Semiotics of Culture and Language Volume 1 Language as Social Semiotic [Hardcover]

Semiotics - the study of the general principles of signs and sign systems  is crucial to an understanding of human nature, both social and psychological. The sign systems that we use for interaction with other living beings determine our potential for thought and social action, and language is central among them. It is the implicit claim of this two-volume work that linguistics has something very specific to give to semiotics, and many would further claim that relational network models of language in particular, i.e. systematic and stratificational linguistics, have a fundamental contribution to make.

Robin P. Fawcettis a Research Professor in Linguistics and Director of the Computational Linguistics Unit at the Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, UK.

M.A.K. Hallidayis Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Sydney Lambis Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Rice University in Texas, USA.

Adam Makkaiis Emeritus Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.

List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
IntroductionRobin P. Fawcett, M.A.K. Halliday, Sydney M. Lamb and Adam Makkai
1 Language as Code and Language as Behaviour: A Systemic-Functional Interpretation of the Nature and Ontogenesis of DialogueM.A.K. Halliday
2 Metaphors of InformationJohn Regan
3 How Universal is a Localist Hypothesis? A Linguistic Contribution to the Study of 'Semantic Styles' of LanguageYoshihiko Ikegami
4 Some Speculations on Language Contact in a Wider SettingJeffrey Ellis
5 Ways of Saying: Ways of MeaningRuqaiya Hasan
Index