Language Topics

Essays in honour of Michael Halliday

Volume 1

Editors

Ross Steele

Terry Threadgold

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This volume in honour of Michael Halliday begins with a section on the background to the development of MAK’s ideas. The second section groups papers on language development in early childhood, which has always been one of Halliday’s main interests. The focus of the third section is on aspects of synchronic and diachronic change in language. Halliday has always emphasised the dynamic interaction between these two perspectives in relation to language use in social contexts. The final section caters to Halliday’s interest in ethnographic, anthropological and educational issues and explore language use in a diversity of world contexts.

[Not in series, LT 1] 1987. xxxii, 490 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.lt1

Table of Contents

Contributors	xiii
Introduction Ross Steele	xix
Comprehensive bibliography of books and articles by M.A.K. Halliday	xxiii
1. Starting Points
Sentence patterns and predicate classes Frantisek Danes	3
On two starting points of communication Jan Firbas	23
The position of Czech linguistics in theme-focus research Petr Sgall	47
J.R. Firth in retrospect: a view from the eighties Eugénie J.A. Henderson	57
Daniel Jones’ “classical” model of pronunciation training: an applied linguistic revaluation John L.M. Trim	69
The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching revisited Peter Strevens	79
2. Langauge Development
“Don’t you get bored speaking only English?” — Expressions of meta-linguistic awareness in a bilingual child Michael Clyne	85
Toward practical theory: Halliday applied Jerome C. Harste	105
Development of referential cohesion in a child’s monologues Katherine Nelson and Elena T. Levy	119
Exploring the textual properties of “proto-reading” Christine C. Pappas	137
Before speaking: across cultures John Regan, Zhao Shuming and Ziao-Ling Hong	163
Sharing makes sense: intersubjectivity and the making of an infant’s meaning Colwyn Trevarthen	177
The development of conversation Gordon Wells and Mary Gutfreund	201
3. Sign, Context and Change
Today Kenneth L. Pike	229
For Michael Halliday: in hoc signo vinces$$sign design Thomas A. Sebeok	231
George Herbert’s Love III and its many mansions R.J. Handscombe	233
The past and prejudice: toward de-mythologizing the English canon Braj B. Kachru	245
Writing systems and language change in English Angus McIntosh	257
On the major diseases of linguistics with some suggested cures and antidotes Adam Makkai	269
“Breaking the Seal of Time”: the pragmatics of poetics Jacob L. Mey	281
The use of systemic linguistics in translation analysis and criticism Peter Newmark	293
Le graphémique et l’iconique dans le message Bernard Pottier	305
Order and entropy in natural language Andrew Schiller	315
Sign and signifex W.C. Watt	333
The practice and theory of translation Colin Yallop	347
4. Language Around the World
Grammatical relations, semantic roles and topic-comment structure in a New Guinea Highland language: Harway Bernard Comrie	355
Toward a bilingual dictionary of idioms: Hindi-English Yamuna Kachru	367
Mind your language: conscious and unconscious structuring in Swahili Joan Maw	379
Communicative functions of particles in Singapore English John Platt	391
Place-name study in Japan Seiji Shibata	403
Teaching English as a second language in India: focus on objectives Shivendra K. Verma	417
The impersonal verb construction in Australian languages Michael Walsh	425
Semantics and world view in languages of the Santa Cruz Archipelago, Solomon Islands Stephen A. Wurm	439
References	453
Volume II
Contributors	Xi
1. The Design of Language
Reproductive furniture and extinguished professors Jean Aitchison	3
English intensifiers and their idiosyncrasies David J. Allerton	15
The tradition of structural analogy John A. E. Anderson	33
Syspro: a computerized method for writing system networks and deriving selection expressions Michael J. Cummings	45
Cultural, situational and modal labels in dictionaries of English Arthur Delbridge	65
Morphological islands: constraint or preference? Wolfgang U. Dressler	71
Some “dia-categories” Jeffrey O. Ellis	81
English quantifiers from noun sources Adrienne Lehrer	95
Two types of semantic widening and their relation to metaphor Samuel R. Levin	107
The indefinite article and the numeral one James P. Thorne	123
2. Text and Discourse
A comparison of process types in Poe and Melville James D. Benson and William S. Greaves	131
Intonation and the grammar of speech David Brazil	145
Some preliminary evidence for phonetic adjustment strategies in communication difficulty John E. Clark, James F. Lubker and Sharon Hunnicutt	161
Evaluative text analysis Malcolm Coulthard	181
Gobbledegook: the tyranny of linguistic conceits Robert D. Eagleson	191
Text strategies: single, dual, multiple Nils Erik Enkvist	203
Finishing other’s talk: some structural and pragmatic features of completion offers Allen D. Grimshaw	213
The textual basis of verbal inflections: the case of Yatzachi Zapotec Carol C. Mock	237
On the concepts of “style” and “register” in sociolinguistics Fred C.C. Peng	261
Social phonological constraints on grammatical formations: examples from four languages Robert H. Robins	307
Collocation: a progress report John McH. Sinclair	319
Linguistic analysis of real estate commission agreements in a civil law suit Roger W. Shuy	333
Antithesis: a study in clause combining and discourse structure Sandra A. Thompson and William C. Mann	359
3. Exploring Language as Social Semiotic
The hegemony of information Richard W. Bailey	385
Many sentences and difficult texts Mackie J.-V. Blanton	401
Explaining moments of conflict in discourse Christopher N. Candlin	413
Is there a literary language? Ronald Carter	431
Coherence in language and culture Benjamin N. Colby	451
Semiotics of document design Mary Ann Eiler	461
Notes on critical linguistics Roger Fowler	481
Grammar, society and the pronoun Richard A. Hudson	493
The structure of situations and the analysis of text Bernard A. Mohan	507
The place of socio-semiotics in contemporary thought Gordon Bruce McKellar	523
Changing the subject Terry Threadgold	549
4. An Interview with Michael Halliday Paul J. Thibault	601
References	629

Subjects

Linguistics

Functional linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General