Talk:Michael Halliday

Peacocky article
This person sounds remarkable, but perhaps his feats should speak for themselves in the article. The current essay, from "his seminal paper" to his being "one of the pioneers" and in between, comes across strangely like fan-mail. The article states that "he is concerned with."... His work might be "concerned with" this or that, but we will never know what concerns him. --Smokefoot (talk) 16:44, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

I have removed unsourced references. I will try to follow up these claims and source them - if I can source them, I'll put them back into the article. I hope this is OK - anyone concerned please email me or leave a message here. I am trying to get this entry up to a standard so that the 'warnings' at the top of the article will be able to be removed (Annabelle Lukin (talk) 06:33, 13 January 2012 (UTC))

Please correct this quote
The quote below is ungrammatical, but it is in quotation marks, so I can't edit without reference to the source. Is this actually the correct form:

"imaginary problems were created by the whole series of dichotomies that Chomsky introduced, or took over unproblematized: not only syntax/semantics but also grammar/lexis, language/thought, competence/performance...Once these dichotomies had been set up, the problem arose of locating and maintaining the boundaries between them linguistics"

There's no clear relationship of the word "linguistics" to what precedes it. A preposition is probably missing, perhaps "in" or "within."zadignose (talk) 09:10, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Meanwhile resolved. No preposition was missing; the word "linguistics" was extraneous.--Frans Fowler (talk) 04:24, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 23:52, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Australian linguist
Until 6 April 2008, the lead paragraph read, "Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M.A.K. Halliday) (born 1925) is an English linguist..." It was then edited to read, "... is an Australian linguist..." (and subsequently to "...is a British-born Australian linguist..."). No reference has been provided for the proposition that Halliday is Australian. Is there any reason why "English" should not be restored? --Frans Fowler (talk) 04:15, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Changed to "from England", but retained Australian linguist tag for the time being--Frans Fowler (talk) 06:23, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

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Requested move 6 June 2023

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) C LYDE TALK TO ME/STUFF DONE (please mention me on reply) 22:37, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

– no clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC per page views Joeykai (talk) 21:18, 6 June 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 03:16, 15 June 2023 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Michael Halliday → Michael Halliday (linguist)
 * Michael Halliday (disambiguation) → Michael Halliday
 * Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 06:06, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose—exceptional notability, needing no disambiguation. Tony (talk)  08:24, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
 * This may be why there are (I re-linked three to the (linguist) title after relisting). With the DuckDuckGo results showing mostly the linguist, I'm wondering if he is primary by long-term significance. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 18:13, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
 * (None of those incoming wikilinks are from templates (navboxes, etc.), by the way). Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 18:51, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The linguist is the primary topic according to long-term significance, and probably accounts for over half of the applicable page views as well considering that the author used this as one of just many, many pseudonyms. Dekimasu よ! 02:37, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

Systemic Functional Grammar
Are there possibly any defects or shortcomings of M.A.K Halliday's systemic functional grammar that a student should know about? 197.211.53.10 (talk) 13:47, 13 April 2024 (UTC)