Studies in English Language: Volume 7(Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday)

This is the seventh volume in the Collected Works of Professor M. A. K. Halliday: Studies in English Language. Topics covered in the papers from the section on "Theoretical foundations" include transitivity, theme-rhyme, mood, and modality in English. Other sections include papers on English intonation and grammar including discussion of word order in English and the complex structures typical of informal spontaneous conversation. The grammatical analyses of English also serve to demonstrate the application of linguistics to language teaching. "This is a fascinating volume, which is mainly devoted to Michael Halliday's thinking in the 1960s. The collection includes articles ranging from detailed innovative proposals for a description of intonation that would allow it to be incorporated into the grammar, through an ambitious re-orientation of the focus of grammatical description at a time when Systemic Grammar was emerging from Scale and Category, to a much later small-scale corpus investigation of the grammar of pain. Together they illustrate Halliday's continuing intellectual enthusiasm and openness to new linguistic trends, even though his own development has always been by accretion, rather than revolution. So, the reader is fascinated to discover how much of the early work has been retained, often in a considerably modified form, in the 21st century version of Systemic Functional Grammar." - Malcolm Coulthard, Professor of English Language and Linguistics, University of Birmingham, UK

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction: Towards an Appliable Description of the Grammar of a Language Part I: Theoretical Foundations Editor's Introduction 1. Notes on Transitivity and Theme in English - Part 1 2. Notes on Transitivity and Theme in English - Part 2 3. Notes on Transitivity and Theme in English - Part 3 4. Options and Functions in the English Clause 5. Diversity in Language, as Seen From a Consideration of Modality and Mood in English Part II: Special Topics Editor's Introduction 6. On Being 7. It's a Fixed Word Order Language is English Part III: Intonation and Grammar Editor's Introduction 8. The Tones of English 9. Intonation in English Grammar 10. English Intonation as a Resource for Discourse Part VI: Analyses Editor's Introduction 11. 'The Teacher Taught the Student English': An Essay in Applied Linguistics 12. On the Grammar of Pain Bibliography Index  

About the Author :
M.A.K. Halliday was Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. 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).

Review :
"an initiative greatly to be welcomed."   Reviewed in IH Journal, 2008 'These four volumes (4, 5, 6 and 7) venture into remarkably diverse fields. How one man could master the minutiae of all these areas of linguistic research is a matter for wonder and admiration. As a linguistic polymath, Halliday far outstrips all contemporaries...One need look for no further explanation of Halliday's current stature as doyen of British linguistics. The publication of Halliday's complete papers is an important contribution to scholarly documentation.'