M.A.K. Halliday was a prominent British linguist and teacher known for developing Systemic Functional Linguistics. He was born in 1925 in Leeds, England and studied Chinese language and linguistics, obtaining a PhD from Cambridge University. Halliday had an illustrious academic career, holding professorships at several prestigious universities and receiving numerous honors for his work developing Systemic Functional Linguistics.

1. M.A.K. Halliday
British Linguist,
Teacher,
Proponent of Systemic
Functional Linguistics

2. Michael Alexander Kirkwood
Halliday
 Born April 13, 1925 in
Leeds, England.
 Winifred, his mother,
studied French.
 Wilfred, his father,
taught English and
was a dialectologist
and a dialect poet
who loved grammar
and Elizabethan
drama.
 Studied Chinese as a
volunteer for the
national services
foreign language
training course in 1942.
 Worked in India for one
year with the Chinese
Intelligence Unit.
 Went back to London
in 1945 to teach
Chinese.

3. Education
 BA Honors degree
in Modern Chinese
Language &
Literature,
University of
London
 PhD in Chinese
Linguistics,
Cambridge
 Studied for three
years in China
under Luo
Changpei, at
Peking University
and under Wang Li
at Lingnan
University

4. Academic Positions
1954 - 1987
 Assist. Lecturer in Chinese,
Cambridge University
 Lecturer in General
Linguistics and Reader,
Edinburgh
 Director of Communication
Research Center, University
College, London
 Linguistic Society of
America Professor, Indiana
University
 Professor of Linguistics, UCL
 Fellow, Center for Advanced
Study in the Behavioral
Sciences, Stanford University
 Professor of Linguistics,
University of Illinois
 Professor of Language and
Linguistics, Essex University
 Foundation Professor of
Linguistics, University of
Sydney
 Emeritus Professor of
University of Sydney and
Macquarie University

5. Honorary Doctorates
 University of
Birmingham (1987)
 York University (1988)
 University of Athens
(1995)
 Macquarie University
(1996)
 Lingnan University
(1999)

6. References
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/2528
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Halliday