Language, Context, and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social-Semiotic Perspective (Language Education) - Softcover

Halliday, M. A. K.; Hasan, Ruqaiya; Christie, Frances

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0194371549 ISBN 13: 9780194371544

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1989

Synopsis

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 organized and the kinds of coherence it displays are closely related to the place and the value that it has in its social and cultural environment.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0194371549
• ISBN 13: 9780194371544
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 126