The Bloomsbury Companion to M. A. K. Halliday (Bloomsbury Companions)

The Bloomsbury Companion to M. A. K. Halliday is a comprehensive and accessible reference resource to one of the world's leading and most influential linguists. Born in 1925, Halliday is the figure most responsible for the development of systemic functional linguistics (SFL). The impact of his work extends beyond linguistics, into the study of stylistics, computation linguistics, visual narrative and multimodal communication. He is considered a founder of the field of social semiotics. Written by leading figures in the field, the volume provides readers with an authoritative overview of his early career, his most important theoretical findings and how his work has influenced linguistics as a discipline. From the publishers of his 'Collected Works' and 'The Essential Halliday', this is another must have book underlining Halliday's era-defining impact on the field of linguistics. Editor: 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). Publisher's note Cover Halftitle Series Title Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgement Notes on Contributors Part I Halliday’s Life 1 Michael Alexander Kirkwood (M. A. K.) Halliday – A Brief Biography1 PART II Halliday: The Making of a Mind 2 The ‘History of Ideas’ and Halliday’s Natural Science of Meaning 1 Introduction 2 A Milieu of Enquiry 3 The ‘Implicate Order’ of Linguistic Tradition 4 What We Expect in Speaking of Science 5 Arguments against a Science of Meaning 6 Co-Ordinates for Scientific Enquiry into Texts and their Contexts 7 Halliday on the ‘Science of Linguistics’ 8 Transactions between Matter and Meaning: ‘How Do You Mean?’ 9 Networks of Choice – A Test Case for a Science of Meaning 10 Comparing Descriptions of Meaning 11 Return to a Natural Science of Meaning 3 Halliday in China: Legacies and Advances from LUO, WANG and Beyond1 1 Introduction 2 Holisticality Epistemology of SFL 3 Key Concepts in SFG 4 Concluding Remarks 4 ‘Socially Realistic Linguistics’: The Firthian Tradition 1 Introduction1 2 British Linguistics: A Vague Tradition 3 Language as Function 4 Context of Situation 5 Constituents of Context of Situation 6 Firthian View of the Sociology of Language, Sociological Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 7 Text and Context 8 The Firthians in the 1970s 9 Conclusion 5 The Influence of Marxism 6 Systemic Functional Linguistics: Halliday and the Evolution of a Social Semiotic* 1 Introduction: From the School to the War 2 Enter Action with Words: From Language towards Linguistics 3 Apprenticeship in Linguistics: Halliday in London/Cambridge 4 Edinburgh 1958–63: Learning Linguistics, Teaching Linguistics 5 London 1963–71: From Systems and Functions to a Social Semiotic 6 Halliday’s Social Semiotic: Functionality and Sociality 7 Concluding Remarks: The Relations of Language and Culture PART III Halliday: Ideas about Language 7 Halliday on Language 1 Halliday on Language: Introduction 2 Language as Resource 3 The Axial Rethink 4 Consequences of the Axial Rethink 5 Language as a Higher-order Semiotic System 6 Ideas about Linguistics 7 Conclusion 8 Halliday’s Conception of Language as a Probabilistic System 1 Introduction 2 Locating Probability; Theory and Data 3 The Cline of Instantiation: Frequency (Instantial) and Probability (Potential) 4 The Hierarchy of Axis: Probabilities in Systems 5 Types of Probability and Probability Profiles 6 Investigating the Corpus 7 Conclusion 9 Language Development in Early Childhood: Learning How to Mean 1 Introduction 2 Prevailing Views of Language Development When Learning How to Mean Was Published 3 Theories of Language and their Implications for Early Childhood Education 4 Halliday’s Functional Model of Language 5 Data Collection 6 Method of Analysis 7 Developmental Overview 8 Towards a Language-based Theory of Learning 10 Halliday the Grammarian: Axial Foundations 1 System and Structure 2 Parsing 3 Class and Syntagm: Function and Structure 4 Tiers of Structure 5 System and Structure 6 System Networks 7 More on Systems 8 Halliday the Grammarian 11 Intonation 1 Introduction: Intonation in Speech and Writing? 2 Intonation: What It Is and What It Does 3 Intonation: Approaches to Its Study 4 Intonational Systems of English Grammar 5 Halliday’s Intonation Description: Its Use, Past and Future 12 Text Linguistics 1 Introduction 2 Origin of a Theory of the Text 3 Systemic Functional Theory1 4 System in Language 5 Ideational Meaning 6 Interpersonal Meaning 7 Textual Meaning 8 Language as a Stratified, Multifunctional System 9 Halliday on Literary Texts 10 Everyday Texts 11 Conclusion 13 Halliday as an International Educator 14 A Linguistics of Style: Halliday on Literature 1 Introduction 2 Influences on Halliday’s Ideas 3 Literature as Text, Text as Literature 4 ‘Situation’, ‘Culture’ and the Construal of a ‘Higher-order Semiotic’ 5 Grammar as Aesthetic Resource 6 What Do Halliday’s Analyses Show? 7 Concluding Remarks Part IV Directions of Development from Halliday 15 Halliday’s Three Functions and Their Interaction in the Interpretation of Painting and Music 1 Functions 2 The Interplay of Compositional and Modal Functions in Hinder’s Abstract Painting 3 The Representational Function in an Abstract Painting 4 The Representational Function in Lowry 5 Lowry’s Modalities in ‘The Rival Candidate’ 6 Lowry’s Composition 7 Some Notes towards a Systemic Functional Semiotics of Music 8 ‘Tarrega’s ‘Recuerdos de la Alhambra’ 9 Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture: Classical Meets Pop 16 Multimodal Semiosis and Semiotics 1 Introduction 2 Multimodal Semiotic Theory 3 Multimodal Semiotic Analysis: ‘Loch House’ and ‘Space Pod’ 4 The Actual Houses 5 Discussion 6 Conclusion Acknowledgements 17 Halliday’s Contributions to a Theory of Translation 1 Introduction 2 Formative Influences 3 Evolving Functional Thinking about Translation in Halliday 4 Contextualization and Appreciation 18 Halliday in Relation to Language Comparison and Typology* 1 Introduction 2 The Development of Descriptions of Different Languages in SFL 3 Comparison 4 Towards Systemic Typology 5 Conclusion 19 Computational Linguistics: The Halliday Connection 1 Introduction 2 The Emergence of Machine Translation 3 Early Computational Versions of Systemic Functional Grammar: Natural Language Parsing 4 Text Generation 5 Linguistic Formalisms 6 Corpus Linguistics and Language as a Probabilistic Phenomenon 7 Conclusions Bibliography Index