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Michael Halliday (1925-2018) was a British linguist who developed systemic functional linguistics (SFL), a model of language as a semiotic system for meaning exchange. He taught and researched in China, England, Scotland, America and Australia, and wrote several influential books on grammar and linguistics.
Michael Halliday, British linguist, teacher, and proponent of neo-Firthian theory who viewed language basically as a social phenomenon. In his early work, he devised four categories (unit, structure, class, and system) and three scales (rank, exponence, and delicacy) to describe language.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Learn about the linguistic theory and description of Michael Halliday, who devised systemic functional linguistics (SFL) as a social semiotic system. SFL considers language as a system of choices, functions, and meanings across different contexts and levels.
Dec 1, 2018 · A biographical sketch and a review of the theoretical development of Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday, a prominent linguist and a pioneer of systemic functional linguistics. The article also highlights his perspective on the dialectical relationship between theory and application, and his socio-cultural commitment to an “appliable linguistics”.
- Erich Steiner
- 2018
Apr 10, 2014 · The author recalls his involvement in the early development of SFL under Michael Halliday at University College London and traces the evolution of the model from Scale and Category Grammar. He also discusses some challenges and questions for future research in SFL.
- Eirian C Davies
- eiriandavies@btinternet.com
- 2014
Sep 22, 2016 · By observing how a human infant develops his own protolanguage, Halliday is able to show that a child not only uses language to express, but also to act, the two functions corresponding to what he calls the ideational and interpersonal metafunctions of language.
Apr 19, 2018 · The University of Sydney is saddened by the passing of Emeritus Professor Michael Halliday, founder of the Department of Linguistics, aged 93.
