Introduction:On the "architecture" of human language&Professor M.A.K.Halliday 1
PART ONE:THE PLACE OF LINGUISTICS AS A DISCIPLINE 33
Editor's introduction 33
1 Syntax and the consumer(1964) 36
2 Grammar,society and the noun(1966) 50
3 The context of linguistics(1975) 74
4 Ideas about language(1977) 92
5 Language and the order of nature(1987) 116
6 New ways of meaning:the challenge to applied linguistics(1990) 139
PART TWO:LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE 177
Editor's introduction 177
7 A brief sketch of systemic grammar(1969) 180
8 Systemic background(1985) 185
9 Systemic grammar and the concept of a"science of language"(1992) 199
10 Language in a changing world(1993) 213
11 A recent view of"missteps"in linguistic theory(1995) 232
12 Linguistics as metaphor(1997) 248
13 Is the grammar neutral?Is the grammarian neutral?(2001) 271
PART THREE:LANGUAGE AS SOCIAL SEMIOTIC 295
Editor's introduction 295
14 The functional basis of language(1973) 298
15 Towards a sociological semantics(1972) 323
16 The history of a sentence(1992) 355
17 The act of meaning(1992) 375
18 On language in relation to the evolution of human consciousness(1995) 390
Appendix:Systemic theory(1994) 433
Bibliography 443
Index 468