Michael Halliday Scientist
Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M.A.K. Halliday) (born 13 April 1925) is a British-born Australian linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistic model of language. His grammatical descriptions go by the name of systemic functional grammar (SFG). 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". However, 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".
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Birth date | April 13, 1925 |
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- http://books.google.com/books?id=-hC0E2cwQswC&printsec=frontcover&dq=M.A.K.+halliday&as_brr=3&ei=chxTS4qVOIaszASk6JiEDA&cd=6#v=onepage&q=&f=false
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- http://language.la.psu.edu/aplng597a/halliday_intro.html
- http://sfs.scnu.edu.cn/halliday/show.aspx?id=67&cid=101
- http://stories4learning.com
- http://stories4learning.com/moodle/course/view.php?id=15
- http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=133380&SntUrl=145103