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This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand Halliday's thinking. It's a book I go back to time and time again and each time I get a something more from it.
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Contents | 1 |
A sociosemiotic interpretation of language | 60 |
theory | 101 |
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| Title | Language as a Social Semiotic: The Social Interpretation of Language and Meaning |
| Author | Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | University Park Press, 1978 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 21, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0839111835, 9780839111832 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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