# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-halliday
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:01:07.971Z

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name: "Michael Halliday"
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description: "Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday, often credited as M. A. K. Halliday, was a British linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistics (SFL) 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\"."
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  isoCode: "GB"
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birthDate: "1925-04-13"
deathDate: "2018-04-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump