Language and Society

Professor M. A. K. Halliday (b. 1925) was Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia, until his retirement and has taught as a Visiting Professor around the world. As a self-styled 'generalist' he has published in many branches of linguistics. Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong.

• Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE: USERS AND USES; Editor's Introduction; 1. The Users and Uses of Language; PART TWO: SOCIOLINGUISTIC THEORY; Editor's Introduction; 2. Language in a Social Perspective; 3. Language and Social Man; 4. Sociological Aspects of Semantic Change; 5. Language as Social Semiotic: Towards a General Sociolinguistic Theory; 6. Some Aspects of Sociolinguistics; PART THREE: LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL CLASS; Editor's Introduction; 7. 'Foreword' to Basil Bernstein's Class, Codes and Control Vol. II: Applied Studies towards a Sociology of Language; 8. Language and the Theory of Codes; PART FOUR: LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE; Editor's Introduction; 9. An Interpretation of the Functional Relationship between Language and Social Structure; 10. Anti-languages; Bibliography.

"'...a major enterprise comparable to a grand retrospective of the painting of some prominent artist of a distinctive school.' Roy Harris, Times Literary Supplement"