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Explorations in the Functions of Language

A function linguistic approach to the study of language. Chapters explore language models, the functional basis of language, language in social perspective, sociological semantics, and linguistic function and literary style. The last chapter makes special consideration of William Golding's "The Inheritors".

144 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1977

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M.A.K. Halliday

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

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IT IS A VERY BENEFITABLE BOOK. I would like to recommand it to my list
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