Table of Contents

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
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

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An examination and analysis of the relationship between language and society, by Professor M.A.K. Halliday.

About the Author

Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also the Managing Editor of the International Linguistics Association’s journal WORD, and the editor of the forthcoming Journal of World Languages (2014). M.A.K. Halliday was Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney.

Reviews

" 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*

"an initiative greatly to be welcomed."   Reviewed in IH Journal, 2008