Talk:Michael Halliday

Peacocky article

This person sounds remarkable, but perhaps his feats should speak for themselves in the article. The current essay, from "his seminal paper" to his being "one of the pioneers" and in between, comes across strangely like fan-mail. The article states that "he is concerned with."... His work might be "concerned with" this or that, but we will never know what concerns him. --Smokefoot (talk) 16:44, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
I have removed unsourced references. I will try to follow up these claims and source them - if I can source them, I'll put them back into the article. I hope this is OK - anyone concerned please email me or leave a message here. I am trying to get this entry up to a standard so that the 'warnings' at the top of the article will be able to be removed (Annabelle Lukin (talk) 06:33, 13 January 2012 (UTC))

Please correct this quote

The quote below is ungrammatical, but it is in quotation marks, so I can't edit without reference to the source. Is this actually the correct form:

"imaginary problems were created by the whole series of dichotomies that Chomsky introduced, or took over unproblematized: not only syntax/semantics but also grammar/lexis, language/thought, competence/performance...Once these dichotomies had been set up, the problem arose of locating and maintaining the boundaries between them linguistics"

There's no clear relationship of the word "linguistics" to what precedes it. A preposition is probably missing, perhaps "in" or "within."zadignose (talk) 09:10, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Meanwhile resolved. No preposition was missing; the word "linguistics" was extraneous.--Frans Fowler (talk) 04:24, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Assessment comment

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This essay lists 7 functions, but most of Halliday's literature lists only three: ideational (which is subdivided into logical and experiential), interpersonal, and textual (see, e.g., An Introduction to Functional Grammar, either 2d or 3d editions; On Grammar, vol. 1 in Collected Works of M. A. K. Halliday [ed. Jonathan J. Webster]; essays in Linguistic Studies of Text and Discourse, vol. 2 in the Collected Works of M. A. K. Halliday [ed. Jonathan J. Webster]). Also, there needs to be citations to Halliday's work. --Jim 20:36, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Last edited at 20:36, 24 February 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 23:52, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Australian linguist

Until 6 April 2008, the lead paragraph read, "Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M.A.K. Halliday) (born 1925) is an English linguist..." It was then edited to read, "... is an Australian linguist..." (and subsequently to "...is a British-born Australian linguist..."). No reference has been provided for the proposition that Halliday is Australian. Is there any reason why "English" should not be restored? --Frans Fowler (talk) 04:15, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Changed to "from England", but retained Australian linguist tag for the time being--Frans Fowler (talk) 06:23, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

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Requested move 6 June 2023

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The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) CLYDE ^{TALK TO ME}/_{STUFF DONE} (please mention me on reply) 22:37, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

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• Michael Halliday → Michael Halliday (linguist)
• Michael Halliday (disambiguation) → Michael Halliday

– no clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC per page views [1] Joeykai (talk) 21:18, 6 June 2023 (UTC)— Relisting. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 03:16, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

• Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 06:06, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose—exceptional notability, needing no disambiguation. Tony (talk) 08:24, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

  This may be why there are 86 incoming wikilinks (I re-linked three to the (linguist) title after relisting). With the DuckDuckGo results showing mostly the linguist, I'm wondering if he is primary by long-term significance. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 18:13, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

  (None of those incoming wikilinks are from templates (navboxes, etc.), by the way). Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 18:51, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose. The linguist is the primary topic according to long-term significance, and probably accounts for over half of the applicable page views as well considering that the author used this as one of just many, many pseudonyms. Dekimasuよ! 02:37, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

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Systemic Functional Grammar

Are there possibly any defects or shortcomings of M.A.K Halliday's systemic functional grammar that a student should know about? 197.211.53.10 (talk) 13:47, 13 April 2024 (UTC)