Explorations in the
Functions of Language

M. A. K. HALLIDAY, the founder of systemic functional linguistics, in the Explorations in Language Study series edited by Peter Doughty and Geoffrey Thornton. Copyright 1973; first published 1973 by Edward Arnold; REPRINTED 1974, 1976, 1977 and 1981 — this copy. The series general introduction is an argument in itself: many teachers “see themselves that ‘Educational failure is primarily linguistic failure’”, and the series exists to close the gap between academic linguistics and those who need its insights. The same series list includes Peter Trudgill’s Accent, Dialect and the School and Derrick Sharp’s Language in Bilingual Communities.