Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday was an English-born linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistic SFL model of language. His grammatical descriptions go by the name of systemic functional grammar. Halliday describes language as a semiotic system, not in the sense of a system of signs, but a systemic resource for meaning. For Halliday, language is a meaning potential; by extension, he defines linguistics as the study of how people exchange meanings by 'languaging'. Halliday describes himself as a generalist, meaning that he has tried to look at language from every possible vantage point, and has described his ...
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