Michael Halliday
Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday was a British 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 described language as a semiotic system, "not in the sense of a system of signs, but a systemic resource for meaning".
Background
- Born in
- Leeds
- Educated at
- Peking UniversityUniversity of London
- Awards
- 🏆 honorary doctorate🏆 honorary doctor of the University of Athens🏆 honorary doctor of the University of Birmingham🏆 honorary doctor of the Beijing Normal University🏆 doctor honoris causa from the University of Nancy
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Trending topics shown first"The theme is what is being talked about, the point of departure for the clause as message, and the speaker has within certain limits the option of selecting any element in the clause as thematic."
"The text is a product in the sense that it is an output, something that can be recorded and studied, having a certain construction that can be represented in systematic terms. It is a process in the s…"
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Timeline
1925
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Died
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