text linguistic expert : Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday

Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M. A. K. Halliday; born 13 April 1925) is a British-born Australian linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistic model of language. His grammatical descriptions go by the name of systemic functional grammar (SFG). 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 work as "wander[ing] the highways and byways of language".However, he has claimed that "to the extent that I favoured any one angle, it was the social: language as the creature and creator of human society".

Halliday was born and raised in England. His fascination for language was nurtured by his parents: his mother, Winifred, had studied French, and his father, Wilfred, was a dialectologist, a dialect poet, and an English teacher with a love for grammar and Elizabethan drama. In 1942, Halliday volunteered for the national services' foreign language training course. He was selected to study Chinese on the strength of his success in being able to differentiate tones. After 18 months' training, he spent a year in India working with the Chinese Intelligence Unit doing counter-intelligence work. In 1945 he was brought back to London to teach Chinese. He took a BA Honours degree in Modern Chinese Language and Literature (Mandarin) through the University of London. This was an external degree, with his studies conducted in China. He then lived for three years in China, where he studied under Luo Changpei at Peking University and under Wang Li at Lingnan University, before returning to take a PhD in Chinese Linguistics at Cambridge under the supervision of Gustav Hallam and then J. R. Firth. Having taught languages for 13 years, he changed his field of specialisation to linguistics, and developed systemic functional linguistics, including systemic functional grammar, elaborating on the foundations laid by his British teacher J. R. Firth and a group of European linguists of the early 20th century, the Prague school. His seminal paper on this model was published in 1961.

Halliday's first academic position was Assistant Lecturer in Chinese, at Cambridge University, from 1954 to 1958. In 1958 he moved to Edinburgh, where he was Lecturer in General Linguistics until 1960, and then Reader from 1960 to 1963. From 1963 to 1965, he was the director of the Communication Research Center at University College, London. During 1964, he was also Linguistic Society of America Professor, at Indiana University. From 1965 to 1971, he was Professor of Linguistics at UCL. In 1972–73 he was Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences, at Stanford, and in 1973–74 Professor of Linguistics at the University of Illinois. In 1974 he briefly moved back to Britain as Professor of Language and Linguistics at Essex University. In 1976 he moved to Australia as Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, where he remained until he retired in 1987. Halliday has worked in various regions of language study, both theoretical and applied, and has been especially concerned with applying the understanding of the basic principles of language to the theory and practices of education. He received the status of Emeritus Professor of the University of Sydney and Macquarie University, Sydney, in 1987. He has honorary doctorates from University of Birmingham (1987), York University (1988), the University of Athens (1995), Macquarie University (1996), and Lingnan University (1999). 

the books are create by M.A.K

An Introduction to Functional Grammar  by M.A.K. Halliday, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen (Revised by)   3.69 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1985 — 8 editions	Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
	Cohesion in English  by M.A.K. Halliday, Ruqaiya Hasan   3.61 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1976 — 8 editions
	Language As Social Semiotic  by M.A.K. Halliday   4.44 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1978 — 4 editions
	Language, Context, and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social-Semiotic Perspective  by M.A.K. Halliday, Ruqaiya Hasan   4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions
	Spoken and Written Language  by M.A.K. Halliday  really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions
	Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar  by M.A.K. Halliday, Christian Matthiessen   3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions
	Explorations In The Functions Of Language  by M.A.K. Halliday   3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions
	Construing Experience Through Meaning: A Language-Based Approach to Cognition  by M.A.K. Halliday, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen   4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions
	Language and Society: Volume 10  by M.A.K. Halliday, Jonathan J. Webster (Editor)   4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions
	Writing Science: Literacy and Discursive Power  by M.A.K. Halliday (Editor), J.R. Martin (Editor)   4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1993 — 10 editions
	On Language and Linguistics: Volume 3  by M.A.K. Halliday   4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
	Bahasa, Konteks, dan Teks  by M.A.K. Halliday, Quqaiya Hasan   3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1985
	Language and Education: Volume 9  by M.A.K. Halliday   4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions
	Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics  by M.A.K. Halliday, Colin Yallop   3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions
	Linguistic Studies of Text and Discourse  by M.A.K. Halliday  really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
	Studies in Chinese Language: Volume 8  by M.A.K. Halliday, Jonathan J. Webster (Editor )   4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions
	Learning How To Mean: Explorations In The Development Of Language  by M.A.K. Halliday  liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1975 — 2 editions
	The Essential Halliday  by M.A.K. Halliday, Jonathan J. Webster (Editor)   3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
	The Language of Science: Volume 5  by M.A.K. Halliday  it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions
	Collected Works of M. A. K. Halliday  by M.A.K. Halliday, Jonathan J. Webster (Editor)  liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
	Intonation in the Grammar of English [With CDROM]  by M.A.K. Halliday, William S. Greaves   3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
	"Judge takes no cap in mid-sentence"  by M.A.K. Halliday  liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002
	Lexicology: A Short Introduction  by M.A.K. Halliday, Colin Yallop  liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions
	System and Function in Language: Selected Papers  by M.A.K. Halliday   2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1976 — 2 editions
	Bloomsbury Companion to Systemic Functional Linguistics  by M.A.K. Halliday (Editor), Jonathan J. Webster (Editor)   2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions
	Learning, Keeping, And Using Language: Selected Papers From The 8th World Congress Of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16 21 August 1987  by M.A.K. Halliday (Editor), John Gibbons, Howard Nicholas (Editor)   2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions
	The Language of Early Childhood: Volume 4  by M.A.K. Halliday  really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004 — 4 editions
	Halliday in the 21st Century: Volume 11  by M.A.K. Halliday, Jonathan J. Webster (Editor)  liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 5 editions
	Computational and Quantitative Studies: Volume 6  by M.A.K. Halliday   1.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions
	Studies in English Language: Volume 7  by M.A.K. Halliday, Jonathan J. Webster (Editor)