Michael Halliday on Writing
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Michael Halliday, catalogued under writing, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Michael Halliday, entry #191139: "Traditionally, grammar has always been a grammar of written language: and it has always been a product grammar" A process/product distinction is a relevant one for linguists becau…"
Attributed to Michael Halliday, entry #228235: "Language... is a range of possibilities, and an open end set of options in behavior that are available to the individual in his existence as social man. The context of culture is …"
3 Quotes by Michael Halliday on Writing
"Traditionally, grammar has always been a grammar of written language: and it has always been a product grammar" A process/product distinction is a relevant one for linguists because it corresponds to that between our experience of speech and our experience of writing: writing exists whereas speech happens."
"Language... is a range of possibilities, and an open end set of options in behavior that are available to the individual in his existence as social man. The context of culture is the environment of any particular selection that is made within them... The context of culture defines the potential, the range of possibilities that are open. The actual choice among these possibilities takes place within a given context of situation."
"Saussure took the sign as the organizing concept for linguistic structure, using it to express the conventional nature of language in the phrase "l'arbitraire du signe". This has the effect of highlighting what is, in fact, the one point of arbitrariness in the system, namely the phonological shape of words, and hence allows the non-arbitrariness of the rest to emerge with greater clarity. An example of something that is distinctly non-arbitrary is the way different kinds of meaning in language are expressed by different kinds of grammatical structure, as appears when linguistic structure is interpreted in functional terms."