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Halliday, M.A.K. & Ruqaiya Hasan (1985). Language, Context and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social Semiotic Perspective. Deakin University Press & Oxford University Press.

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• This study deals with the linguistic study of texts as a way of understanding how language functions in its immensely varied range of social contexts. The authors adopt a functional approach to language, in which the different registers or functional varieties of a language are explained by reference to the different contexts in which they occur. Their analysis reveals how, on the one hand, each text is unique, while on the other, the way a text is organized and the kinds of coherence it displays are closely related to the place and the value that it has in its social and cultural environment.

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Related works

• Halliday, M.A.K. & Ruqaiya Hasan (1985). Language, Context and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social Semiotic Perspective. Deakin University Press & Oxford University Press. ^[+]
• Halliday, M.A.K. & Ruqaiya Hasan (1976). Cohesion in English. London: Longman. ^[+]
• Halliday, M.A.K. (1975). Learning How to Mean, London: Edward Arnold. ^[+]

See also

• 1977/Turner ^[+]
• Douglas, Mary (1975). Implicit Meanings: Essays in Anthropology. Routledge. ^[+]
• Geertz, Clifford (1973). The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays. New York: Basic Books. ^[+]
• Ogden, C. K. & I. A. Richards (1923). The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. ^[+]