Semiotics of culture and language. Volume 1, Language as social semiotic / edited by Robin P. Fawcett, M.A.K. Halliday, Sydney M. Lamb and Adam Makkai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fawcett, Robin P., editor.

Halliday, M. A. K. (Michael Alexander Kirkwood), 1925- editor.

Lamb, Sydney M., editor.

Makkai, Adam, editor.

Series:

Bloomsbury Academic Collections. Linguistics. Open linguistics.

Linguistics : Bloomsbury Academic Collections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and culture.

Language and languages.

Semiotics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 1984.

Summary:

"Semiotics - the study of the general principles of signs and sign systems - is crucial to an understanding of human nature, both social and psychological. The sign systems that we use for interaction with other living beings determine our potential for thought and social action, and language is central among them. It is the implicit claim of this two-volume work that linguistics has something very specific to give to semiotics, and many would further claim that relational network models of language in particular, i.e. systematic and stratificational linguistics, have a fundamental contribution to make."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword

Introduction / Robin P. Fawcett, M.A.K. Halliday, Sydney M. Lamb and Adam Makkai

1 Language as Code and Language as Behaviour: A Systemic-Functional Interpretation of the Nature and Ontogenesis of Dialogue / M.A.K. Halliday

2 Metaphors of Information / John Regan

3 How Universal is a Localist Hypothesis? A Linguistic Contribution to the Study of 'Semantic Styles' of Language / Yoshihiko Ikegami

4 Some Speculations on Language Contact in a Wider Setting / Jeffrey Ellis

5 Ways of Saying: Ways of Meaning / Ruqaiya Hasan

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4742-8573-2

1-4742-4715-6

OCLC:

933565784