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Michael Halliday

1925 - 2018

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Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M. A. K. Halliday; 13 April 1925 – 15 April 2018) 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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Halliday has received more than 677,953 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Michael Halliday is the 98th most popular linguist (down from 58th in 2019), the 2,281st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,624th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Linguist.

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  • 52.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Michael Halliday ranks 98 out of 214. Before him are Stephen Krashen, Gustaf John Ramstedt, George Abraham Grierson, Paul Ariste, John Chadwick, and Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze. After him are Alexander Potebnja, Johannes Schmidt, Yuen Ren Chao, Đuro Daničić, Teun A. van Dijk, and Joan Coromines.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Michael Halliday ranks 201. Before him are Bernard Morel, Jimmy Smith, Lenny Bruce, Andrei Sinyavsky, Scott Carpenter, and Edward Gorey. After him are Paul Wild, Maureen Stapleton, Rubem Fonseca, Justo Gallego Martínez, Zhores Medvedev, and Matías González. Among people deceased in 2018, Michael Halliday ranks 176. Before him are Nicolas Roeg, Karl Lehmann, Kim Larsen, Joseph Joffo, Serhiy Tkach, and Kirin Kiki. After him are Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Vladimir Lyakhov, Tab Hunter, Edgar Hilsenrath, Penny Marshall, and Jesús López Cobos.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Halliday ranks 2,281 out of 8,785. Before him are Joseph Whitworth (1803), Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein (1867), Mick Fleetwood (1947), Sol Campbell (1974), James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (1531), and Andrew Birkin (1945). After him are Allan Holdsworth (1946), Charles Gray (1928), Marjorie Bruce (1297), Douglas Mawson (1882), Gregor MacGregor (1786), and Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, Michael Halliday ranks 4. Before him are William Jones (1746), Robert Morrison (1782), and John Chadwick (1920). After him are Daniel Jones (1881), John Florio (1553), James Legge (1815), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), John Lyons (1932), Henry Liddell (1811), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), and John Rupert Firth (1890).

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