Language and Society
A major enterprise comparable to a grand retrospective of the painting of some prominent artist of a distinctive school. Roy Harris， Times Literary Supplement. The tenth volume in Professor M.A.K. Halliday s collected works includes papers focusing on Language and Society. The papers provide a framework for understanding the social meaning of language， and the relation of language to other social phenomena. The volume begins with Professor Halliday s ground-breaking work on the users and uses of language. Subsequent chapters are organized around a discussion of sociolinguistic theory， and the relation between language and social class and social structure.