5743711
9780194371537
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.Halliday, M. A. is the author of 'Spoken and Written Language', published 1989 under ISBN 9780194371537 and ISBN 0194371530.
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