Bloomsbury Companion to M. A. K. Halliday

Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong.Professor M. A. K. Halliday is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia and one of the world's most renowned linguists and Honorary Professor in the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong.

• Part I: Halliday's Life1. Michael Alexander Kirkwood (M.A.K.) Halliday - A Brief Biography, Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong)Part II: Halliday: The Making of a Mind2. The 'History of Ideas' and Halliday's Natural Science of Meaning, David G. Butt (Macquarie University, Australia)3. Halliday in China: Legacies and Advances from LUO, WANG and Beyond, Peng Xuanwei (Beijing Normal University, China)4. 'Socially Realistic Linguistics': The Firthian Tradition, Braj B. Kachru (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)5. The Influence of Marxism, M.A.K. Halliday (University of Sydney, Australia)6. Systemic Functional Linguistics: Halliday and the Evolution of a Social Semiotic, Ruqaiya Hasan (Macquarie University, Australia)Part III: Halliday: Ideas about Language7. Halliday on Language, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)8. Halliday's Conception of Language as a Probabilistic System, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)9. Language Development in Early Childhood: Learning How to Mean, Jane Torr (Macquarie University, Australia)10. Halliday the Grammarian: Axial Foundations, Jim R. Martin (University of Sydney, Australia)11. Intonation, Bradley A. Smith (University of Melbourne, Australia) and William S. Greaves (York University, Canada)12. Text Linguistics, Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong)13. Halliday as an International Educator, Geoff Williams (University of British Columbia, Canada)14. A Linguistics of Style: Halliday on Literature, Annabelle Lukin (Macquarie University, Australia)Part IV: Directions of Development from Halliday16. Halliday's Three Functions and Their Interaction in the Interpretation of Painting and Music, Michael O’Toole (Murdoch University, Australia)17. Multimodal Semiosis and Semiotics, Kay L. O'Halloran, Marissa K.L.E. and Sabine Tan (National University of Singapore)18. Halliday’s Contributions to a Theory of Translation, Erich Steiner (University of Saarland, Germany)19. Halliday in Relation to Language Comparison and Typology, Kazuhiro Teruya and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)20. Computational Linguistics: The Halliday Connection, John Bateman (University of Bremen, Germany) and Mike O’Donnell (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)Index

[F]ive significant features guarantee the value of the volume. First, the volume provides new insights into the epistemological influences on the evolution of SFL ... Second, the volume offers intensive discussion of the evolution of SFL as a social semiotic ... Third, the volume contains in-depth and insightful explanations of the major architecture of Halliday's linguistic theory ... [It] presents enlightening surveys of Halliday's studies in some specific research areas ... [and] collects inspiring discussions on the directions of SFL's future development ... In sum, the volume will be welcomed as indispensable reading.