Michael Halliday - Language evolving: Some systemic functional reflections on the history of meaning

Halliday talks about language development, change and evolution. Long video, but the more you watch, the more you win.

http://youtu.be/nC-blhaIUCk

Appraisal and Systemic Functional Grammar

Alongside Alvin Leong's interesting and detailed set of systemic functional grammar pages, here is a useful-looking framework for analysing and assessing texts called 'appraisal'. The focus is on interpersonal meanings and speaker attitudes.

http://www.alvinleong.info/sfg/sfgappraisal.html

How to do CDA

One of many good pages on CDA from Strathclyde, giving some details and discussion of elements of language you can focus on when looking for the way texts wield power and seek to influence readers.


http://www.strath.ac.uk/aer/materials/6furtherqualitativeresearchdesignandanalysis/unit3/howtodocda-languageaspects/

Critical Discourse Analysis: A Primer

Good summary of CDA approaches, designed to use language tools to identify the power relationships in a text.

http://www.kon.org/archives/forum/15-1/mcgregorcda.html

How Many Spaces After a Period? Ending the Debate

More detail than you would ever need about the typographical history of the number of times you should hit the spacebar after you've finished typing a sentence. 

How Many Spaces After a Period? Ending the Debate
http://theworldsgreatestbook.com/how-many-spaces-after-a-period/