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Handbook of Pragmatics: 26th Annual Installment
Edited by Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras, Mieke Vandenbroucke and Frank Brisard
[Handbook of Pragmatics 26] 2023
► pp. 111–126

Michael Alexander Kirkwood (M. A. K.) Halliday

| City University of Hong Kong
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Metafunctional hypothesis
  • 3.Context of situation
  • 4.Paradigmatic basis
  • 5.Influences in Halliday’s life
  • 6.Appliable linguistics
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 16 October 2023
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