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Language, Context, and Text

Aspects of Language in a Social-Semiotic Perspective

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ID10816634
AuthorsCharles F Meyer, M A K Halliday, Μ Α Κ Halliday (University of Massachusetts Boston)
Year1987
Volume21
Issue2
Pages353
Publication date1987-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Review ofLanguage, Context, and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social-Semiotic Perspective (Language Education), Michael Halliday, 1989
VenueTESOL Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0039-8322 • E-ISSN: 1545-7249
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3586740
OpenAlexW2014313181
LanguageEN
Citations received21

This study deals with the linguistic study of texts as a way of understanding how language functions in its immensely varied range of social contexts. The authors adopt a functional approach to language, in which the different registers or functional varieties of a language are explained by reference to the different contexts in which they occur. Their analysis reveals how, on the one hand, each text is unique, while on the other, the way a text is organized and the kinds of coherence it displays are closely related to the place and the value that it has in its social and cultural environment

Cognitive science · Context (archaeology) · Linguistics · Perspective (graphical) · Semiotics · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology

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