Michael Halliday
Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M.A.K. Halliday; 13 April 1925 – 15 April 2018) was an English-born linguist. He developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistic model of language. His grammatical works go by the name of systemic functional grammar (SFG).[1]
Michael Halliday | |
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 Halliday at his 90th-birthday symposium, 2015 | |
| Born | Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday 13 April 1925 |
| Died | 15 April 2018 (aged 93) Sydney, Australia |
| Nationality | English |
| Known for | Systemic functional linguistics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Linguistics |
| Influences | Vilém Mathesius (Prague school) Wang Li, J.R. Firth, Benjamin Lee Whorf |
| Influenced | Ruqaiya Hasan, C.M.I.M. Matthiessen, J.R. Martin, Norman Fairclough |
Halliday described 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".[2]
Halliday died in Sydney of natural causes on 15 April 2018 at the age of 93.[3]
References
- ↑ See Halliday, M.A.K. 2002. On Grammar, Vol. 1 in The Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday. London: Continuum.
- ↑ Halliday, 2002. "A Personal Perspective". In On Grammar, Vol. 1 in The Collected Works, pp. 7, 14.
- ↑ Obituary for Michael Halliday