The concept of meaning in the London Language School

Abstract

This study seeks to investigate the concept of meaning in the London Language School. As the school that turned to the meaning from the angle of social use, rather than the contemporary linguistic schools that were concerned with the linguistic structure only, in isolation from the contexts of its use, especially the social aspect; As for the London School, one of its ways to study the meaning was the term (the context of the situation) that the anthropologist Malinowski came up with, then John Firth came and employed the context of the situation in his study of the meaning in his theory known as context theory, while Halliday was a righteous student of Firth, who took that from his teacher Concepts with a functional tendency, and based on it his approach in linguistic analysis, and added to it, and he came out with his theory, which was known as the theory of functional grammar. The search for meaning was the organizing thread for the work of those scholars in the London School.