Language, context, and text : Aspects of language in a social-semiotic perspective /
M.A.K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan.
- 2nd. ed.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1991.
- 126 p. : il.
Technical terms, p. 125.
Further readings: p. 122-124.
Part A. M.A.K. Halliday: 1. Context of situation. — 2. Functions of language. — 3. Register variation. — Text, context and learning. Part B. Ruqaiya Hasan: 4. The structure of a text. — 5. The texture of a text. — 6. The identity of a text. — Learning through text in context.
This work is concerned with the linguistic study of texts as a way of understanding how language functions in its immensely varied range of social contexts.