Linguistic Studies of Text and Discourse

M. A. K. Halliday is Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney. As a self-styled generalist' he has published in many branches of linguistics, both theoretical and applied. The volumes in the present series encompass these aspects of Halliday's work. Jonathan J. Webster is Acting Head, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, and Associate Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong.

• Preface; Part One: Linguistic Analysis and Textual Meaning; 1. The Linguistic Study of Literary Texts; 2. Text as Semantic Choice in Social Contexts; Part Two: Highly-valued Texts (Novel; Drama; Science in Poetry; Poetry in Science); 3. Linguistic Function and Literary Style: An Inquiry into the Language of William Golding's The Inheritors; 4. The De-automatization of Grammar: From Priestley's An Inspector Calls; 5. Poetry as Scientific Discourse: The Nuclear Sections of Tennyson's in Memoriam; 6. The Construction of Knowledge and Value in the Grammar of Scientific Discourse: With Reference to Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species; Part Three: Everyday Texts (Written; Spoken); 7. Some Lexicogrammatical Features of the Zero Population Growth text; 8. 'So You Say "Pass"... Thank You Three Muchly'.

This collection of papers shows the extraordinary range of Halliday's textual analyses, his sharpness of perception and his delicate touch in reconciling subjective perceptions of a text and objective patterns found in it. From the "stylistics" controversies of the sixties to the highly sophisticated descriptions of ordinary texts in the nineties, Halliday has consistently led the way to a greater understanding of the way language works. Professor John Sinclair, Tuscan Word Centre, Italy.