Studies In Chinese Language Volume 8 Mak Halliday Jonathan J Webster by M.a.k. Halliday, Jonathan J. Webster 9780826458742, 9781847065759, 0826458742, 1847065759 instant download after payment.

Now available in paperback, this eighth volume in the "Collected Works" series offers a detailed survey of the Chinese language by eminent linguist M.A.K. Halliday."Studies in Chinese Language", the eighth volume in the "Collected Works of Professor M. A. K. Halliday", approaches the Chinese language from several interesting vantage points, ranging from studies of medieval to modern grammar, phonology, and discourse.Professor Halliday's doctoral thesis, "The Language of the Chinese, Secret History of the Mongols'", provides the basis for the first section of this volume, with extracts from the book as well as the original Chinese text, which is one of the earliest known texts written in Mandarin, included on the accompanying CD-ROM. The second section focuses on modern Chinese grammar, while the third looks at Chinese phonology. The final section, 'Grammar and Discourse', includes papers on grammatical metaphor and scientific discourse in both Chinese and English."The Collected Works of M. A. K. Halliday" is a series that brings together Halliday's publications in many branches of linguistics, both theoretical and applied (a distinction which he himself rejects), including grammar and semantics, discourse analysis and stylistics, phonology, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, language education, and child language development.