The Language of Science: Volume 5 (Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday) - Softcover

Halliday, M.A.K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826488277 ISBN 13: 9780826488275

Publisher: Continuum, 2006

Synopsis

'Halliday's investigations into grammatical metaphor take us deeply into the way we construct and expand meanings, starting with representations of concrete experienced events and ending with theoretical worlds populated by abstract entities linked through generalized relations and causalities. He finds these processes most strikingly in the development of the modern sciences that have historically created robust virtual worlds of theory from observable material events. He sees the same processes of grammatical metaphor as children learn to participate in our built symbolic environment, particularly as they are introduced to these meaning systems in schools, an institution designed expressly for that purpose.' Professor Charles Bazerman, University of California, Santa Barbara.

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About the Authors

M.A.K. Halliday was Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney.

Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also the Managing Editor of the International Linguistics Association's journal WORD, and the editor of the forthcoming Journal of World Languages (2014).

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826488277
• ISBN 13: 9780826488275
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268
• Editor: Webster Jonathan J.