Michael Halliday

Michael Halliday during the symposium on his 90th birthday, February 17, 2015.

Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (born April 13, 1925 in Leeds ; † April 15, 2018 in Sydney ) was an English-born linguist who, among other things, a. developed the systemic-functional grammar model.

biography

Halliday grew up in England and received a bachelor's degree in modern Chinese language and literature from the University of London . He then lived in China for three years , where he studied under Luo Changpei at Peking University and under Wang Li at Lingnan University in Guangzhou . After returning to London in 1950, he wanted to study at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), where - although he was not a communist - he was not accepted due to the anti-communist agitation of the McCarthy era , and so he completed his PhD - Degree in Chinese Linguistics from Cambridge . The subject of his dissertation was the language of the Chinese translation of the Secret History of the Mongols . Together with Frank R. Palmer and Terence Frederick Mitchell , he can be considered a student of John Rupert Firth (1890–1960), who all worked at SOAS in London. In 1965 he took over a professorship in linguistics at the University of London. In 1976 he became Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney .

He has been a corresponding member of the British Academy since 1989 and an external member of the Academia Europaea since 1994 . He received honorary doctorates from the University of Birmingham , the University of British Columbia , York University , the University of Athens and other universities.

Works

• Jonathan J. Webster (Ed.): Collected Works of MAK Halliday . Peking University Press, Beijing 2006; Vol. 1: On Grammar [论 语法], ISBN 978-7-301-12847-3 ; Vol. 2: Text and Discourse [语篇 和 话语 的 语言学 ​​研究], ISBN 978-7-301-13037-7 ; Vol. 3: On Language and Linguistics [论 语言 和 语言学], ISBN 978-7-301-13036-0 ; Vol. 4: The Language of Early Childhood [婴 幼儿 的 语言], ISBN 978-7-301-13012-4 ; Vol. 5: The Language of Science [科学 语言], ISBN 978-7-301-13038-4 ; Vol. 6: Computational and Quantitative Studies [计算机 与 定量 语言], ISBN 978-7-301-13033-9 ; Vol. 7: Studies in English Language [英语 语言 研究], ISBN 978-7-301-12958-6 ; Vol. 8: Studies in Chinese Language [汉语 语言 研究], ISBN 978-7-301-13009-4 ; Vol. 9: Language and Education [语言 与 教育], ISBN 978-7-301-13035-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Halliday in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday
• Halliday, Michael Alexander Kirkwood (bibliography)
• Systemic functional linguistics

Individual evidence

1. ^ Membership directory: Michael Halliday. Academia Europaea, accessed on August 17, 2017 (English, with biographical and other information).