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Language, Context, and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social-Semiotic Perspective (Language Education)
Language Context and Text Aspects of Language in a SocialSemiotic Perspective - Language Education Author:M. A. K. Halliday, Ruqaiya Hasan 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 occ... more »ur. 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