Language as social semiotic: The social interpretation of language and meaning

by M.A.K. Halliday

El lenguaje no es un mero reflejo metafórico de la realidad social ni un ingrediente expresivo de é es el vínculo semiótico que produce y renueva los significados culturales y los significantes discursivos, los mensajes complejos de un momento histórico. Los ensayos reunidos de Halliday reflejan una indagación a fondo dentro de este abigarrado fenómeno.

Genres: Linguistics, Language, Semiotics, Sociology, Nonfiction, Research

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday is a British-born Australian linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistic model of language.

Reviews

[Nadia]

Overwhelmingly impressive

[Books from Faeries · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Learning a language is to know how to mean, in society".

This is a must read for anyone who would like to know about sociolinguistics. It is a classic in the field.

Halliday doesn't only describes, characterises language as a system, and its components semiotically, and semantically. But he also dicusses language teaching methods, language and education.

[Chairul Yahya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book

[Agung Wisnu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good

[Jeaaan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Whatever

[Sarita]

I think Goodreads need to correct the hopefully orthographic - rather than conceptual - mistakes (yes... more than one) in the book's title. It is quite painful to bear.