Spoken and Written Language

By M.A.K. Halliday

This books identifies the important differences between speaking and writing. Halliday leads the reader from the development of speech in infancy, through an account of writing systems, to a comparative treatment of spoken and written language, contrasting the prosodic features and grammatical intricacy of speech with the high lexical density and grammatical metaphor or writing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0194371530
• ISBN13: 9780194371537
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.8" x 9.7"