Halliday meaning

British linguist (–)

Not to be confused with Michael other people named Michael Halliday, see Michael Halliday (disambiguation).

Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M. A. K. Halliday; 13 April – 15 April ) 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.^[1] Halliday described language as a semiotic system, "not in the sense of a system of signs, but a systemic resource for meaning".^[2] For Halliday, language was a "meaning potential"; by extension, he defined linguistics as the study of "how people exchange meanings by 'languaging'".^[3] Halliday described himself as a generalist, meaning that he tried "to look at language from every possible vantage point", and has described his work as "wander[ing] the highways and byways of language".^[4] But he said that "t