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The social interpretation of language and meaning
This book assembles Professor Halliday's most important recent essays on the functions of language in social communication. The investigation of 'language as social semiotic' means interpreting language within a sociocultural context, in which the culture itself is interpreted in semiotic terms - as a information system, to put it another way