Michael Halliday Quick Facts

Michael Halliday is a British linguist and teacher.

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• Birth Name: Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday
• AKA: M.A.K. Halliday
• Date of Birth: 13 April 1925
• Place of Birth: Leeds, Yorkshire, England
• Zodiac Sign: Aries
• Date of Death: 15 April 2018
• Died at Age: 93
• Place of Death: Sydney, Australia
• Place of Burial: NA
• Cause of Death: Natural causes
• Ethnicity: White
• Nationality: British
• Father: Wilfred Halliday
• Mother: Winifred Halliday  née Kirkwood
• Spouse(s):

1. Trenchu Wong (m. 1947)
2. Irene (‘Pat’) Woolf (m. 1952)
3. Anne McLaren
4. Brenda Stephen (m. 1961)
5. Ruqaiya Hasan (1931–2015) (m. 1967)

• Children:

1. By Woolf: Son- Andrew Daughter- Polly
2. By Ruqaiya Hasan: Son - Neil
3. By Anne McLaren: Daughter- Caroline
4. By Brenda Stephen: Daughter- Clare

• Alma Mater: University of London; Peking University; University of Cambridge.
• Michael Halliday is Known for: developing Systemic Functional Linguistics
• Michael Halliday is criticized for: NA
• Michael Halliday was influenced by: Vilém Mathesius (Prague school) Wang Li, J.R. Firth, Benjamin Lee Whorf
• Michael Halliday’s Works Inspired: Ruqaiya Hasan, C.M.I.M. Matthiessen, J.R. Martin, Norman Fairclough

Career History

• 1954–1958: Assistant Lecturer in Chinese, Cambridge University
• 1958–1963:Lecturer in General Linguistics and Reader, University of Edinburgh
• 1963–1970: Director of Communication Research Center, University College, London
• 1964: Linguistic Society of America Professor, Indiana University
• 1965–971: Professor of Linguistics, UCL
• 1972–1973: Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
• 1973–1974: Professor of Linguistics, University of Illinois
• 1974-1975: Professor of Language and Linguistics, Essex University
• 1976–1987: Foundation Professor of Linguistics, University of Sydney
• 1988: Emeritus Professor of University of Sydney

Membership

• Philological Society (United Kingdom)
• Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States
• Linguistic Society of America
• Australian Linguistics Society.
• Applied Linguistics Association of Australia

Quotes

“It is part of the task of linguistics to describe texts, and all texts, including those prose or verse, which fall within any definition of literature and are accessible to analysis by the existing methods of linguistics.” - Michael Halliday, The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching

Major Works

The linguistic sciences and language teaching (1964)
Intonation and Grammar in British English (1967)
A course in spoken English (1970)
Explorations in the functions of language (1973)
Language and Social Man (1974)
Learning how to Mean: Explorations in the Development of Language (1975)
Halliday: System and Function in Language: Selected Papers (1976)
Cohesion in English (1976)
Language as a Social Semiotic (1978)
Lexical Cohesion (1979)
Readings in Systemic Linguistics (1981)
Learning Asian Languages (1986)
An Introduction to Functional Grammar (1985)
Spoken and Written Language (1985)
New Developme5nts in Systemic Linguistics: Theory and application (1988)
Language, Context, and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social-semiotic Perspective (1985)
Writing science (1993)
Discourse in Society: Systemic Functional Perspectives (1995)
Construing Experience through Meaning (1999)
On language and linguistics (2003)
The Language of Early Childhood (2002)
On grammar (2002)
The Language of Science (2000)
Linguistic Studies of Text and Discourse (2002)
Computational and Quantitative Studies (2004)
Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics (2004)
Studies in Chinese Language (2005)
Language and Society (2007)
Language and Education (2007) 
Lexicology: A Short Introduction (2007)
Intonation in the Grammar of English (2008)
The Essential Halliday (2009)
Halliday in the 21st Century (2013)
Aspects of Language and Learning (2016)
Text Linguistics: The how and why of Meaning (2014)
An Introduction to Relational Network Theory: History, Principles, and Descriptive Applications (2017)
Verbal Art and Verbal Science: The Chess Moves of Language (2018)

Did You Know?

• Michael Halliday’s father, Wilfred Halliday, was a dialectologist, an English teacher and a poet of the Yorkshire dialect, having deep predilection for grammar and Elizabethan drama.
• His mother, Winifred Kirkwood, was a French teacher; during the First World War she held the position of Editor of The Gryphon, the official newspaper of the University of Leeds.
• Halliday attained a B.A. in Chinese language and literature from the University of London.
• He completed postgraduate work in linguistics, first at Peking University and later at the University of Cambridge.
• Michael Halliday obtained his Ph.D. in 1955 from Peking University.
• Halliday has honorary doctorates from University of Birmingham (1987), York University (1988), the University of Athens (1995), Macquarie University (1996), Lingnan University (1999) and Beijing Normal University (2011).
• Michael Halliday founded the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney in 1976.
• While serving at the University of Sydney, Halliday founded the Sydney School.
• After his retirement from the University of Sydney in 1987 he became the Emeritus Professor in the same university.
• The Department of Linguistics of the University of Sydney honoured Halliday with the founding of the Halliday Medal upon his retirement; in 2014, Halliday presented the award personally at the School of Literature, Art and Media’s prize-giving ceremony.
• Halliday’s works particularly concerned with applying the understanding of the basic principles of language to the theory and practices of education.
• Halliday married several times in his life.
• Halliday has four grandchildren: Bianca, Nicole, Rhona and Cameron.
• After the demise of his beloved wife, Ruqaiya Hasan in 2015, he suffered terribly from the loss.
• He died at Uniting Wesley Heights Nursing Home in Manly, New South Wales, Australia.

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Richard Hudson Quick Facts

Richard Hudson is a British linguist and a retired professor.

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• Birth Name: Richard Anthony Hudson
• AKA: Richard Anthony "Dick" Hudson; Richard (Dick) Hudson;  Dick Hudson; Richard Hudson
• Date of Birth: September, 18 1939
• Place of Birth: Sussex, England, United Kingdom
• Zodiac Sign: Virgo
• Ethnicity: White
• Nationality: British
• Father: John Pilkington Hudson (1910 – 2007)
• Mother: Gretta Hudson née Heath (1910-1989)
• Siblings: 2

1. Brother-John Colin Hudson (1938 – 2004)
2. Brother- George Bryan Stephens Heath

• Spouse: Gaynor Evans

• Children: 2

1. Daughter - Lucy
2. Daughter-  Alice

• Alma Mater: Loughborough Grammar School, Leicestershire; Corpus Christi College; Cambridge, School of Oriental and African Studies
• Richard Hudson is known for: his theory of Word Grammar.

Quotes

“Sociolinguists don’t set out to produce Grand Theories, so there are no schools of sociolinguistics. They’re also very self-critical on matters of method and data, and are forever wishing that their sociology was better. There are theories, but most sociolinguists are rather down-to-earth people with rather practical concerns and not much time for theory. At this stage in its development the subject probably has the right priorities—mainly collecting and cataloguing fairly low-level data.” - Richard Hudson, Interview with Richard Hudson by Joseph Hilferty

Major Works

English Complex Sentences: An Introduction to Systematic Grammar (1971)
Arguments for a Non-Transformational Grammar (1976)
Sociolinguistics (1980)
Word Grammar (1984a)
Introduction to Linguistics (1984b)
English Word Grammar (1990)
Teaching Grammar: A Guide for the National Curriculum (1992)
Word Meaning (1995)
English Grammar (1998)
Language Networks: The New Word Grammar (2007)
An Introduction to Word Grammar (2010)
Oxford Teaching Guides: How to Teach Grammar (2019)

Did You Know?

• Richard Hudson is the second child born to John Pilkington Hudson and Mary Gretta Hudson.
• His father was a horticulturalist and bomb-disposal officer.
• Apart from staying in New Zealand from 1945 to 1948, he has lived in England for most of his life.
• At present Hudson resides in North London.
• He joined University College London in 1970 and spent the whole of his working life there as Lecturer, Reader then Professor of Linguistics.
• Although retired in 2004, at present he holds the position of an Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at University College London.
• He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
• Hudson did his doctoral thesis on the grammar of Beja, a Semitic language spoken in north-eastern Africa.
• His 1980 publication, Sociolinguistics is considered as a classic book in the field of Sociolinguistics.
• Professor Hudson has done wide-ranging work in the area of syntax.

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Ronald Wardhaugh Quick Facts

Ronald Wardhaugh is a Canadian retired professor of linguistics.

 

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Full Name: Ronald Wardhaugh
Date of Birth: 1932
Place of Birth: Canada
Nationality: Canadian
Ethnicity: White
Known for: his book An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Major Works

• English for a Changing World Level 1 (1984)
• How Conversation Works (1985)
• An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (1986)
• Reading: A Linguistic Perspective (1969)
• Introduction to Linguistics (1971)
• The Contexts of Language (1976)
• Investigating Language (1993)
• Language and Nationhood  (1983)
• Languages in Competition: Dominance, Diversity, and Decline (1987)
• Understanding English Grammar (1995)
• Proper English: Myths and Misunderstandings about Language (1999)

Quotes

“When two or more people communicate with each other in speech, we can call the system of communication that they employ a code. In most cases that code will be something we may also want to call a language.”

― Ronald Wardhaugh, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

“… sociolinguistics is concerned with investigating the relationships between language and society with the goal being a better understanding of the structure of language and of how languages function in communication; the equivalent goal in the sociology of language is trying to discover how social structure can be better understood through the study of language, e.g., how certain linguistic features serve to characterize particular social arrangements.”
― Ronald Wardhaugh, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

“While people do usually know what language they speak, they may not always lay claim to be fully qualified speakers of that language. They may experience difficulty in deciding whether what they speak should be called a language proper or merely a dialect of some language.”
― Ronald Wardhaugh, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

“Taboo is the prohibition or avoidance in any society of behavior believed to be harmful to its members in that it would cause them anxiety, embarrassment, or shame. It is an extremely strong politeness constraint. Consequently, so far as language is concerned, certain things are not to be said or certain objects can be referred to only in certain circumstances, for example, only by certain people, or through deliberate circumlocutions, i.e., euphemistically. Of course, there are always those who are prepared to break the taboos in an attempt to show their own freedom from such social constraints or to expose the taboos as irrational and unjustified, as in certain movements for ‘free speech.’”

― Ronald Wardhaugh, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Did you know?

• Ronald Wardhaugh held the position of professor from 1975 to 1995 in the Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto.
• Wardhaugh served in various capacities, such as Assistant Professor (1966 to 1968), Associate Professor (1968 to 1972), and Professor of Linguistics (1972 to 1975) in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
• He held the position of Chairman in the Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto from 1975 to 1986.
• In 1995 the University of Toronto conferred him the position of Emeritus Professor.
• His book  An Introduction To Sociolinguistics (1986) has been widely deemed to be the most resourceful and comprehensive work on sociolinguistic literature.

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