On language and lingistics / M.A.K. Halliday.

Introduction: On the "architecture" of human language / M. A. K. Halliday -- 1. Syntax and the consumer (1964) -- 2. Grammar, society and the noun (1966) -- 3. The context of linguistics (1975) -- 4. Ideas about language (1977) -- 5. Language and the order of nature (1987) -- 6. New ways of meaning: the challenge to applied linguistics (1990) -- 7. A brief sketch of systemic grammar (1969) -- 8. Systemic background (1985) -- 9. Systemic grammar and the concept of a "science of language" (1992) -- 10. Language in a changing world (1993) -- 11. A recent view of "missteps" in linguistic theory (1995) -- 12. Linguistics as metaphor (1997) -- 13. Is the grammar neutral? Is the grammarian neutral (2001) -- 14. The functional basis of language (1973) -- 15. Towards a sociological semantics (1972) -- 16. The history of a sentence (1992) -- 17. The act of meaning (1992) -- 18. On language in relation to the evolution of human consciousness (1995) -- App. Systemic theory (1994).