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Language topics : essays in honour of Michael Halliday. Volume 1 /

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 asp...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Halliday, M. A. K. (Michael Alexander Kirkwood), 1925-2018, Steele, Ross, Threadgold, Terry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©1987.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • LANGUAGE TOPICS I; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Contributors; Introduction; Comprehensive bibliography of books and articles by M.A.K. Halliday; 1. Starting Points; Sentence patterns and predicate classes; On two starting points of communication; The position of Czech linguistics in theme-focus research; J.R. Firth in retrospect: a view from the eighties; Daniel Jones' ""classical"" model of pronunciation training: an applied linguistic revaluation; The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching revisite; 2. Language Development
  • Don't you get bored speaking only English? Expressions of metalinguistic awareness in a bilingual childToward practical theory: Halliday applied; Development of referential cohesion in a child's monologues; Exploring the textual properties of protoreading
  • Before speaking: across cultures; Sharing makes sense: intersubjectivity and the makingof an infant's meaning; The development of conversation; 3. Sign, Context and Change; Today; For Michael Halliday In hoc signo vinces; George Herbert's Love III and its many mansions
  • The past and prejudice: toward de-mythologizingthe English canonWriting systems and language change in English; On the major diseases of linguistics with somesuggested cures and antidotes; ""Breaking the Seal of Time"": the pragmatics of poetics; The use of systemic linguistics in translation analysis and criticism; Le graphémique et l'iconique dans le message; Order and entropy in natural language; Sign and signifex; The practice and theory of translation; 4. Language Around the World; Grammatical relations, semantic roles and topic-commentstructure in a New Guinea highland language: Harway
  • Toward a bilingual dictionary of idioms: Hindi-EnglishMind your language: conscious and unconscious structuring in Swahili; Communicative functions of particles in Singapore English; Place-name study in Japan; Teaching English as a second language in India: focus on objectives; The impersonal verb construction in Australian languages; Semantics and world view in languages of the Santa Cruz Archipelago, Solomon islands; List of references