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Language, Context and Text
Vol. 2:1 (2020) ► pp.187–207

Matthiessen on Halliday

An interview with Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen (Part II)

| The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
| Sun Yat-sen University
| Guangdong Polytechnic of Science and Technology
Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen was a long-time collaborator and close friend of M. A. K. Halliday, and has co-authored various books with Halliday, some of which have not yet been published. In the second part of the interview, Matthiessen discusses Halliday’s engagement with computational linguistics, provides details of Halliday’s experiences as a language teacher, comments on Halliday’s contributions to language development, introduces Halliday’s collaboration with Basil Bernstein and Halliday’s conception of language as social semiotics, and reflects on Halliday’s influence on Matthiessen himself.
Keywords: M. A. K. Halliday, interview, computational linguistics, machine translation, language teaching, language development, sociology, Basil Bernstein, social semiotics, Halliday in China
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Halliday and computational linguistics
    • 2.1Halliday and computational linguistics in the 1950s
    • 2.2Halliday and computational linguistics in the 1960s
    • 2.3Michael Halliday and computational linguistics after the 1970s
  • 3.Halliday as a language teacher
  • 4.Halliday and language development
  • 5.Halliday and sociology
  • 6.Halliday and social semiotics
  • 7.The Hallidayan influence on Matthiessen
  • 8.Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 29 January 2020
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