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Publication details [#12444]

Halliday, M.A.K. 1997. Language in a Social Perspective. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 31–38.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

action | culture | functionalism vs. formalism | language and society | sociolinguistics

Reprint of

Halliday, M.A.K. 1997. Language in a Social Perspective. In : 31–38.

Annotation

On the significance of functional theories of language in order to comprehend what language does socially and communicatively.

Reprints

Halliday, M.A.K. 1997. Language in a Social Perspective. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 31–38.