Books

Title Author(s) / Editor(s) Publisher Date
Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics: The State of the Art in China Today Edited by Jonathan J. Webster and Xuanwei Peng Bloomsbury Jan 2017
The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan Vol 4 Ruqaiya Hasan, edited by Jonathan J. Webster Equinox Jul 2016
Aspects of Language and Learning M.A.K. Halliday, edited by Jonathan J. Webster Springer Jun 2016
The Bloomsbury Companion to M. A. K. Halliday Jonathan J. Webster Bloomsbury UK Apr 2015
The Collected Works of Braj B. Kachru Vols 1 - 3 Braj B. Kachru;
Jonathan J. Webster (ed.)
Bloomsbury UK Feb 2015
Text Linguistics: The How and Why of Meaning M. A. K. Halliday &
Jonathan J. Webster
Equinox UK Dec 2014
Understanding Verbal Art: A Functional Linguistic Approach Jonathan J. Webster Springer Asia Dec 2014
The Collected Works of M. A. K. Halliday Vol. 11:
Halliday in 21st Century
M. A. K. Halliday;
Jonathan J. Webster (ed.)
Bloomsbury UK Dec 2013
Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics:
Theory and Application
Fang Yan &
Jonathan J. Webster (eds)
Equinox UK Dec 2013
The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan Vols 1 - 3 Ruqaiya Hasan;
Jonathan J. Webster (ed.)
Equinox UK 2005 - 2011
The Halliday Centre Series in Appliable Linguistics M. A. K. Halliday;
J. R. Martin,
Christian Matthiessen &
Clare Painter
Commercial Press, Beijing 2008; 2010
The Collected Works of M. A. K. Halliday Vols 1 -10 M. A. K. Halliday;
Jonathan J. Webster (ed.)
Bloomsbury UK 2002 - 2009
Bloomsbury Companion to Systemic Functional Linguistics M. A. K. Halliday &
Jonathan J. Webster (eds)
Bloomsbury UK 2009
The Essential Halliday M. A. K. Halliday;
Jonathan J. Webster (ed.)
Bloomsbury UK 2009
Meaning in Context: Implementing Intelligent Applications of Language Studies Jonathan J. Webster (ed.) Bloomsbury UK 2008
Continuing Discourse on Language Vols 1 & 2 Ruqaiya Hasan,
Christian Matthiessen &
Jonathan J. Webster (eds)
Equinox UK 2005
Text Linguistics 篇章語言學 Jonathan J. Webster;
Xu Jiujiu (trans.)
China Social Sciences Press 2002


The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan Volumes 1 - 5


Each volume in this series on the work of Ruqaiya Hasan comprises a selection of unpublished and previously published papers under the editoralship of Professor Jonathan Webster. The first three volumes were published in 2005, 2009 and 2011 respectively and the remaining five volumes are scheduled for publication in 2014.

Volume 1: Language, Society and Consciousness (Aug 2005)
Volume 2: Semantic Variation: Meaning in Society and in Sociolinguistics (Jul 2009)
Volume 3: Language and Education: Learning and Teaching in Society (Sep 2011)
Volume 4: Context in the System and Process of Language (Feb 2016)
Volume 5: Describing Language: Form and Function (Jan 2019)

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The Halliday Centre Series in Appliable Linguistics


In 2007, HCLS reached an agreement with the Commercial Press, Beijing, on the publication of "The Halliday Centre Series in Appliable Linguistics". The publication of the series has been designed to promote its visibility in the targeted areas of appliable linguistics and language technology. It will demonstrate that, through publications of international scholarship under the name of the Centre, the University not only enjoys a prominent standing in eastern Asia but is also a strategic player internationally in linguistic studies as well as practical applications.

The first volume of "The Halliday Centre Series in Appliable Linguistics" - Complementarities in Language written by Professor M.A.K. Halliday - was published in July 2008. The second volume - Deploying Functional Grammar - co-authored by Professor J. R. Martin, Professor Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen, and Dr. Clare Painter was published March 2010. This book is a revised edition of Working with Functional Grammar - a workbook designed to teach and practise a wide range of grammatical analyses provided by Professor M.A.K. Halliday in his Introduction to Functional Grammar.

It is believed that the publication of the series will have a profound impact on the future development of the Centre and enhance the profile of the University.

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The Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday Volumes 1 - 11


For nearly half a century Michael Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insight into the social semiotic phenomenon we call language. Now, for the first time, Halliday's collected works are available as a ten-volume set.

As a self-styled 'generalist' Michael Halliday has published in many branches of linguistics, both theoretical and applied, including grammar and semantics, discourse analysis and stylistics, phonology, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, language education and child language development. This ten-volume set encompasses all of these aspects of Halliday's work.

Volume 1: On Grammar (2005)
Volume 2: Linguistic Studies of Text and Discourse (2006)
Volume 3: On Language and Linguistics(2006)
Volume 4: Language of Early Childhood (2006)
Volume 5: Language of Science (2006)
Volume 6: Computational and Quantitative Studies (2006)
Volume 7: Studies in English Language (2005)
Volume 8: Studies in Chinese Language (2006)
Voulme 9: Language and Education (2007)
Volume 10: Language and Society (2009)
Volume 11: Halliday in the 21st Century (Dec 2013)

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Bloomsbury Companion to Systemic Functional Linguistics




The Continuum Companion to Systemic Functional Linguistics is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for students and researchers. The book includes: introduction to the field by M. A. K. Halliday; comprehensive introduction to methodology and issues; definitions of key terms; outlines of research areas; guide to researching systemic functional linguistics; bibliography of key readings. Comprehensive and accessible, this Continuum Companion will be the essential guide for students and researchers of systemic functional linguistics.

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The Essential Halliday




The Essential Halliday contains selected articles by M. A. K. Halliday on the core areas of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Presenting a thorough survey of Halliday's published work across five decades, the reader includes discussion of function, metafunction, grammar, metaphor, learning and teaching language, child language, computational linguistics, semantics, social semiotics and discourse analysis. Detailed cross references and suggestions for further reading guide the reader to other articles of interest.

This comprehensive reader is an indispensable guide to the work of M.A.K. Halliday. It will be an invaluable resource for students and researchers of Systemic Functional Linguistics.

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Meaning in Context: Implementing Intelligent Applications of Language Studies




A Symposium on "Meaning in Context: Implementing Intelligent Applications of Language Studies" was held in March 2006 to mark the official launch of the Centre. A book under the editorship of Professor Jonathan Webster was published in April 2008 by Continuum as a complete collection of the papers presented at the Symposium. The book, entitled "Meaning in Context: Implementing Intelligent "Applications of Language Studies", collects some of the biggest names in systemic functional linguistics in one volume, and shows how this theory can be applied to language studies 'intelligently', in order to arrive at a better understanding of how meaning is constructed in language.

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Continuing Discourse on Language Volumes 1 & 2


The two volume set Continuing Discourse on Language offers the reader a selective account of the evolution of important aspects of Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics over the last couple of decades. The range of topics covered includes not only certain fundamental concepts at the level of theory but also an account of the wide range of applications enabled by the descriptive framework that the theory has generated. Given its acclaimed perspective on language as social semiotic, SFL has always located semiotic activity in relation to human life: in the chapters of these two volumes internationally recognised authors attempt to show the ways in which SFL relates to recent research on cognition, on socio-cultural contexts, and in computational linguistics. A theory is only as good as the description and application it enables: conceptualising the relations of theory and practice as a dialectic, SFL has created a framework for the analysis of language from the level of cultural context to that of the media for semiotic expressions.

Continuing Discourse on Language gives the reader an insight into the continuing evolution of the impressive range of frames of description and their applications: from typology to multi-modality, from models of discourse analysis to translation and stylistics, from the role of language in knowledge construal to language education, genre based pedagogy and web based learning, the two volumes together provide a rich resource for students and researchers in language study for understanding, practicing and applying a linguistics keenly aware of the role of language in social life.

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Text Linguistics 篇章語言學




篇章語言學是國際上近二三十年來發展起來的一個新的語言學流派,它研究的對象是大於小句的語言片段。本書以系統功能語法和修辭 結構理論為理論框架,研究篇章的結構及各種篇章現象,介紹和分析組成篇章的基本原則和技巧。本書在理論研究的基礎上,注重對篇 章進行實例分析,並提出了自己的觀點。

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