Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday, often credited as M. A. K. Halliday, was a British linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistics model of language, with grammatical descriptions known as systemic functional grammar. He described language as a semiotic system and a meaning potential, defining linguistics as the study of how people exchange meanings through language, and described his own approach as favoring the social angle, treating language as the creature and creator of human society.
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Developed systemic functional grammar as a comprehensive account of English clause structure and its social functions.
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Halliday studied under Firth and developed systemic functional linguistics directly from Firth system-structure theory of language.
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Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (13 April 1925 - 15 April 2018), often credited as M. A. K. Halliday, was a British linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model of language.
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Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday, often credited as M. A. K. Halliday, was a British linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistics model of language, with grammatical descriptions known as systemic functional grammar.
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