Language Topics

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

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