Michael Halliday | Academic Influence

Why Is Michael Halliday Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday was a British linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistics model of language. His grammatical descriptions go by the name of systemic functional grammar. Halliday described language as a semiotic system, "not in the sense of a system of signs, but a systemic resource for meaning". For Halliday, language was a "meaning potential"; by extension, he defined linguistics as the study of "how people exchange meanings by 'languaging'". 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". But he said that "to the extent that I favoured any one angle, it was the social: language as the creature and creator of human society".

Michael Halliday's Published Works

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Published Papers

An Introduction to Functional Grammar (1985) (12089)
Cohesion in English (1976) (6443)
Language as social semiotic: The social interpretation of language and meaning (1976) (3879)
Language, Context, and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social-Semiotic Perspective (1989) (3114)
NOTES ON TRANSITIVITY AND THEME IN ENGLISH. PART 2 (1967) (1823)
Explorations in the functions of language (1973) (1675)
Writing Science: Literacy And Discursive Power (1993) (1629)
Learning How to Mean: Explorations in the Development of Language (1975) (1163)
Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar (2014) (1065)
Spoken and Written Language (1989) (999)
Towards a Language-Based Theory of Learning (1993) (696)
Intonation and Grammar in British English (1967) (680)
The Linguistic Sciences And Language Teaching (1964) (610)
Categories of the theory of grammar (1959) (587)
AN INTRODUCTION TO FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR (Third Edition) (498)
Theory and application (1988) (360)
A course in spoken English : intonation (1970) (335)
On the language of physical science (1993) (335)
Some grammatical problems in scientific English (1989) (271)
Functional diversity in language as seen from a consideration of modality and mood in English (1970) (267)
Text and Context: Aspects of Language in a Social-Semiotic Perspective (1980) (253)
Introducing functional grammar (2004) (230)
New ways of meaning - the challenge to applied linguistics (2001) (217)
System and Function in Language (1978) (210)
14 – Learning How to Mean (1975) (195)
Language and society (2009) (190)
Text as Semantic Choice in Social Contexts (1977) (169)
The language of science (2004) (168)
Literacy in Science: Learning to Handle Text as Technology (2003) (158)
Linguistic Studies of Text and Discourse (2003) (155)
Language and Education (2007) (152)
On language and linguistics (2003) (144)
Life as a Noun: Arresting the Universe in Science and Humanities (2003) (141)
1. The notion of “context” in language education (1999) (136)
Intonation in the Grammar of English (2008) (131)
On Grammar and Grammatics (1996) (126)
Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar (Fourth Edition) (2014) (123)
RELEVANT MODELS OF LANGUAGE (1969) (117)
Language topics : essays in honour of Michael Halliday (1989) (108)
Language as system and language as instance: The corpus as a theoretical construct (1992) (104)
Linguistic function and literary style: an inquiry into the language of William Golding's The Inheritors (2020) (91)
Technicality and Abstraction: Language for the Creation of Specialized Texts (2003) (84)
Continuum companion to systemic functional linguistics (2009) (79)
Some notes on ‘deep’ grammar (1966) (77)
New developments in systemic linguistics (1987) (76)
The Language of Early Childhood (2004) (76)
Intonation and Grammar in British English (1970) (75)
Towards a theory of good translation (2001) (71)
On the grammar of pain (1998) (62)
Language and the Order of Nature (2003) (61)
The Essential Halliday (2009) (61)
Readings in Systemic Linguistics (1981) (59)
A QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF POLARITY AND PRIMARY TENSE IN THE ENGLISH FINITE CLAUSE (2004) (57)
Language in a Social Perspective. (1971) (57)
The construction of knowledge and value in the grammar of scientific discourse, with reference to Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species (2002) (57)
On the ineffability of grammatical categories (1988) (55)
Complementarities in language (2008) (54)
Corpus studies and probabilistic grammar (2014) (53)
Discourse in Society: Systemic Functional Perspectives (1995) (52)
Options and functions in the English clause (1969) (47)
Language and Knowledge: The ‘Unpacking’ of Text (1999) (46)
Studies In English Language (2005) (44)
GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES IN MODERN CHINESE. (1956) (43)
On matter and meaning: the two realms of human experience (2007) (42)
Halliday: System and Function in Language : Selected Papers (1976) (41)
Meaning and form : systemic functional interpretations (1996) (40)
Language Theory and Translation Practice (1992) (39)
6. Metafunctional profile of the grammar of Chinese (2004) (39)
THE PLACE OF DIALOGUE IN CHILDREN'S CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING (1991) (38)
The Analysis of Scientific Texts in English and Chinese (2003) (38)
Tiddim Chin: A Descriptive Analysis of Two Texts. (1966) (38)
CLASS IN RELATION TO THE AXES OF CHAIN AND CHOICE IN LANGUAGE (1963) (37)
ON LANGUAGE IN RELATION TO THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS (1995) (37)
Lexicology and corpus linguistics : an introduction (2004) (34)
The concept of rank: A reply (1966) (31)
INTONATION IN ENGLISH GRAMMAR (1963) (29)
Systemic Functional Linguistics: Exploring Choice: Meaning as choice (2013) (28)
Computing Meaning : Some Reflections on Past Experience and Present Prospects (2000) (28)
14. Grammar and Daily Life: Concurrence and Complementarity (2000) (27)
The Construction of Knowledge and Value in the Grammar of Scientific Discourse: Charles Darwin’s The Origin of the Species (2003) (24)
A Language Development Approach to Education. (1994) (23)
Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics (2004) (23)
Linguistics as metaphor (1997) (22)
The spoken language corpus: a foundation for grammatical theory (2004) (22)
Patterns of Language-papers in General Descriptive and Applied Linguistics (1966) (21)
Ideas about Language (2012) (20)
Language in a Changing World. Occasional Paper Number 13. (1993) (20)
Studies in Chinese Language (2006) (19)
Lexicology: A Short Introduction (2007) (19)
Text linguistics : the how and why of meaning (2014) (18)
A recent view of "missteps" in linguistic theory (1995) (18)
Aims And Perspectives In Linguistics (1977) (16)
The de-automization of meaning: from Priestley’s ‘An inspector calls’ (1982) (16)
The act of meaning (1993) (15)
Notes on teaching Chinese to foreign learners (2014) (15)
As ciências lingüísticas e o ensino de línguas (1974) (14)
Some Lexicogrammatical Features of the Zero Population Growth Text (1992) (14)
A sociosemiotic perspective on language development (1974) (13)
On the transition from child tongue to mother tongue (1983) (13)
Fuzzy grammatics: a systemic functional approach to fuzziness in natural language (1995) (12)
New ways of analysing meaning: The challenge to applied linguistics (1992) (12)
Is the grammar neutral? Is the grammarian neutral? (2001) (12)
A note on systemic functional linguistics and the study of language disorders (2005) (12)
Aspects of Language and Learning (2016) (11)
A grammar for schools (1982) (10)
It's a fixed word order language is English (1985) (10)
Halliday in the 21st century (2013) (10)
Theory and description (1987) (9)
Applied Linguistics: thematic pursuits or disciplinary moorings?: A conversation between Michael Halliday and Anne Burns (2015) (9)
Chapter 20. Written Language, Standard Language, Global Language (2008) (9)
Some Thoughts on Language in the Middle School Years. (1977) (7)
Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987. Volume 1 (1990) (6)
Aims and Perspectives in Linguistics. Occasional Papers Number 1. (1977) (6)
'THE TEACHER TAUGHT THE STUDENT ENGLISH': AN ESSAY IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS (1978) (6)
Applied linguistics : thematic pursuits or disciplinary moorings? (2008) (6)
CONTEXTS OF ENGLISH (1992) (6)
New ways of analysing meaning (1992) (6)
LANGUAGE AND EXPERIENCE (1968) (6)
National Language and Language Planning in a Multilingual Society (1972) (5)
System and text: Making links (2000) (4)
Phonology Past and Present: A Personal Retrospect (2000) (3)
Language as Cultural Dynamic (1993) (3)
FORUM: TOWARD A PHENOMENOLOGY OF INTERVIEWS LESSONS FROM THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF INTERVIEWS (2005) (3)
On Explanation in Systemic Functional Theory (2015) (3)
The Evolution of a Language of Science (2016) (2)
English and Chinese: Similarities and Differences (2016) (2)
1. Language evolving: Some Systemic Functional reflexions on the history of meaning (2010) (2)
Clause as representation (2013) (2)
"Linguistic Approach" to the Teaching of the Mother Tongue?. (1971) (1)
The relevance of linguistics for the teacher of English (1968) (1)
Clause as message (2013) (1)
SUBJECT, ACTOR, THEME (2013) (1)
4 The linguistic environment of intonation (2008) (1)
Introduction: The Discursive Technology of Science (1993) (0)
Language and Learning in the Primary School (2016) (0)
The Ontogenesis of Rationality: Nigel Revisited (2016) (0)
Murder Comes Home (1971) (0)
Languages, Education and Science: Future Needs (2016) (0)
The linguistic sciences and language learning / M.A.K. Halliday, Angus McIntosh, Peter Strevens (1970) (0)
Language and Science, Language in Science, and Linguistics as Science (2019) (0)
Cohesion in English / M.A.K. Halliday, Requaiya Hasan (1984) (0)
Languages and Cultures (2016) (0)
CANDIA MORGAN WHAT DOES SOCIAL SEMIOTICS HAVE TO OFFER (2010) (0)
A Course in spoken english : intonation / M. A. K. Halliday (1970) (0)
INFORMATION COHESION IN ENGLISH (0)
Past Achievements and Future Possiblities of Systemic-Functional Discourse/Text Analysis: In Memory of (2012) (0)
Language, Learning and ‘Educational Knowledge’ (2016) (0)
ECOLINGUISTIC RESONANCES: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF SELECTED NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS By (2017) (0)
Language in a Social Perspective* (2020) (0)
Written Language, Standard Language, Global Language (2019) (0)
The Languistic sciences and language teaching / M.A.K Halliday (1966) (0)
The Language of School ‘Subjects’ (2016) (0)
Learning to Learn Through Language (2016) (0)
"Judge takes no cap in mid-sentence": on the complementarity of grammar and lexis (2002) (0)
M. A. K. Halliday. Aspects of Language and Learning Edited by Jonathan J. Webster The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series, 2016. (2016) (0)
Below the clause: groups and phrases (2013) (0)
Towards a functional grammar (2013) (0)
The de-automization of meaning (1982) (0)
The meaning of cohesion (2014) (0)

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