Language and Society

Professor M. A. K. Halliday (b. 1925) was Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia, until his retirement and has taught as a Visiting Professor around the world. As a self-styled 'generalist' he has published in many branches of linguistics. Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong.

"'...a major enterprise comparable to a grand retrospective of the painting of some prominent artist of a distinctive school.' Roy Harris, Times Literary Supplement"

• Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE: USERS AND USES; Editor's Introduction; 1. The Users and Uses of Language; PART TWO: 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 THREE: 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 FOUR: LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE; Editor's Introduction; 9. An Interpretation of the Functional Relationship between Language and Social Structure; 10. Anti-languages; Bibliography.