THIS VOLUME was originally intended to be a collection of selected papers, written in the decade after 1972. The original plan was to rework and to rewrite them individuatly, to create a book of essays. In the process those earlier papers were absorbed into a more general framework, though traces of them can still be found. They became a single book. Its themes are how the young child acquires the wes of his native language and how by using language first for limited ends the child comes finally to recognize its more powerful, productive uses.
The Longman Exams Skills series is for students preparing for the First Certificate and proficiency exams. The books in each set provide through preparation for each of the papers with lots of practice based on real exam tasks.
On Grammar (Collected Works of Mak Halliday Series)
On Grammar (Volume 1) This first volume contains seventeen papers, including a new piece entitled 'a personal perspective' , in which Professor Halliday offers his own views on language and linguistic theory as covered in his collected works. The first part presents early papers (1957-1966); the second part highlights how over the span of two decades (mid-60s to mid-80s) Halliday developed systemic theory to account for linguistic phenomena extending upward through the ranks from word to clause to text; the third part includes more recent work..
