Michael Halliday, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Michael Halliday

Australian linguist

Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1925

Place of Birth: Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 15-Apr-2018

Profession: pedagogue, university teacher, philosopher, linguist

Nationality: United Kingdom, Australia

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Michael Halliday

  • Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M.
  • A.
  • K.
  • Halliday; 13 April 1925 – 15 April 2018) was an English-born linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model of language.
  • His grammatical descriptions go by the name of systemic functional grammar.
  • Halliday describes language as a semiotic system, "not in the sense of a system of signs, but a systemic resource for meaning".
  • For Halliday, language is a "meaning potential"; by extension, he defines linguistics as the study of "how people exchange meanings by 'languaging'".
  • Halliday describes himself as a generalist, meaning that he has tried "to look at language from every possible vantage point", and has described his work as "wander[ing] the highways and byways of language".
  • But he has claimed that "to the extent that I favoured any one angle, it was the social: language as the creature and creator of human society".Halliday's grammar differs markedly from traditional accounts that emphasise classification of individual words (e.g.
  • noun, verb, pronoun, preposition) in formal, written sentences in a restricted number of "valued" varieties of English.
  • Halliday's model conceives grammar explicitly as how meanings are coded into wordings, in both spoken and written modes in all varieties and registers of a language.
  • Three strands of grammar operate simultaneously.
  • They concern: (i) the interpersonal exchange between speaker and listener, and writer and reader; (ii) representation of our outer and inner worlds; and (iii) the wording of these meanings in cohesive spoken and written texts, from within the clause up to whole texts.
  • Notably, the grammar embraces intonation in spoken language.
  • Halliday's seminal Introduction to Functional Grammar (first edition, 1985) spawned a new research discipline and related pedagogical approaches.
  • By far the most progress has been made on English, but the international growth of communities of SFL scholars has led to the adaptation of Halliday's advances to some other languages.

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