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Book: Interviews with M.A.K. Halliday

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Title: Interviews with M.A.K. Halliday
Subtitle: Language Turned Back on Himself
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/

Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/interviews-with-mak-halliday-9781441190819/

Editor: J. R. Martin

Hardback: ISBN: 9781441154873 Pages: 288 Price: U.K. £ 70.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9781441190819 Pages: 288 Price: U.K. £ 22.99

Abstract:

This volume gathers together 14 interviews with M A K Halliday, the founder of
systemic functional linguistics (SFL), recorded over four decades – the most
recent of which was conducted in 2011 and published here for the first time.
In these engaging conversations with colleagues Halliday explores his own
development as a student of language in Britain and China, the evolution of
SFL theory around the world, its place in the field of general linguistics and
its many sites of application.

The dialogic mode enacted here allows Halliday to touch on many points of
personal history and intellectual challenge that have not been addressed in
formal publications (in his books or collected papers), including answers to
the many thought-provoking questions his colleagues had waited sometimes years
to ask. Accordingly each chapter offers a fresh illuminating window on the
innovative thinking and assured convictions of this towering figure in
linguistics.