Language, Context, and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social-Semiotic Perspective

by M.A.K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan

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This study deals with the linguistic study of texts as a way of understanding how language functions in its immensely varied range of social contexts. The authors adopt a functional approach to language, in which the different registers or functional varieties of a language are explained by reference to the different contexts in which they occur. Their analysis reveals how, on the one hand, each text is unique, while on the other, the way a text is...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0194371549

ISBN13:9780194371544

Release Date:June 1989

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:140 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

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Education Education & Reference Education & Training English as a Second Language Foreign Languages Humanities Language Arts Linguistics Movements & Periods Postmodernism

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