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 …

This note documents the life of Michael Halliday, father of Systemic Functional Linguistics. He is known professionally as M.A.K. Halliday, after his full name: Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday.

The published works of M. A. K. Halliday I. Included in The Collected Works of M. A. K. Halliday (Continuum Books), edited by Jonathan J. Webster. Volume One: On Grammar (2002) 1. Halliday, M. A. K. (1957) ‘Some aspects of systematic description and compari-son in grammatical analysis’, Studies in Linguistic Analysis, Special Volume of

Learning How to Mean--Explorations in the Development of Language. Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd., 41 Maddox Street, London W. 1, England (2 … The linguistic sciences and language...

2018年12月1日 · Halliday's school experience involved classical texts and classical history, while English literature provided the only formal contact with the language of more recent periods. His own personal interests centered around China and around language.

2016年9月22日 · The theme of these lectures is to construct a linguistically informed theory of education, providing a linguistic interpretation of how people learn. The lectures as a whole provide an essential framework of Halliday’s ideas on language, knowledge and education.

2019年5月26日 · Halliday trained intensively in Chinese for 18 months in 1942. He taught Chinese during World War II to both the British army servicemen and their families. From 1945 to 1947, he continued teaching Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Concurrently, he also studied Russian.

2022年5月5日 · M.A.K. Halliday (1925–2018) was the founder of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and, undoubtedly, one of the most influential linguists of his time, credited with changing the way that language and linguistics have been taught.

Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M. A. K. Halliday; 13 April 1925 – 15 April 2018) was a British linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model of language.

Alexander Kirkwood Halliday, whose pioneering approach to the study of language is known as Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), was born on Easter Monday, 13 April 1925 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. He passed away on 15 April 2018 in Sydney, Australia, at the age of 93.