Consisting of papers focusing on Language and Society, this tenth volume in Professor MAK Halliday's collected works provides a framework for understanding the social meaning of language, and the relation of language to other social phenomena. It begins with Professor Halliday's work on the users and uses of language.

Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE: USERS AND USES; Editor's Introduction; 1. The Users and Uses of Language; PART TWO: SOCIOLINGUISTIC THEORY; Editor's Introduction; 2. Language in a Social Perspective; 3. Language and Social Man; 4. Sociological Aspects of Semantic Change; 5. Language as Social Semiotic: Towards a General Sociolinguistic Theory; 6. Some Aspects of Sociolinguistics; PART THREE: LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL CLASS; Editor's Introduction; 7. 'Foreword' to Basil Bernstein's Class, Codes and Control Vol. II: Applied Studies towards a Sociology of Language; 8. Language and the Theory of Codes; PART FOUR: LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE; Editor's Introduction; 9. An Interpretation of the Functional Relationship between Language and Social Structure; 10. Anti-languages; Bibliography.

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.