Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday was a British linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model of language. His grammatical descriptions go by the name of systemic functional grammar. Halliday described language as a semiotic system,"not in the sense of a system of signs,but a systemic resource for meaning". For Halliday,language was a "meaning potential";by extension,he defined linguistics as the study of "how people exchange meanings by 'languaging'". Halliday described himself as a generalist,meaning that he tried "to look at language from every possible vantage point",and has described his work as "wander[ing] the highways and byways of language". But he said that "to the extent that I favoured any one angle,it was the social:language as the creature and creator of human society".
In linguistics and related fields,pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning. The field of study evaluates how human language is utilized in social interactions,as well as the relationship between the interpreter and the interpreted. Linguists who specialize in pragmatics are called pragmaticians. The field has been represented since 1986 by the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA).
Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It is a branch of anthropology that originated from the endeavor to document endangered languages and has grown over the past century to encompass most aspects of language structure and use.
Willard Richardson Espy was an American editor,philologist,writer,poet,and local historian. Raised in the seaside village of Oysterville,Washington,Espy later studied at the University of Redlands in California before becoming an editor in New York City,as well as a contributor to Reader's Digest,The New Yorker,Punch,and other publications.
Ray Jackendoff is an American linguist. He is professor of philosophy,Seth Merrin Chair in the Humanities and,with Daniel Dennett,co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He has always straddled the boundary between generative linguistics and cognitive linguistics,committed to both the existence of an innate universal grammar and to giving an account of language that is consistent with the current understanding of the human mind and cognition.
Leonard Talmy is Professor Emeritus of linguistics and philosophy and Director Emeritus of the Center for Cognitive Science at the University at Buffalo in New York. Born on June 17,1942,he received his Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of California,Berkeley,in 1972.
Teun Adrianus van Dijk is a scholar in the fields of text linguistics,discourse analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA).
Charles J. Fillmore was an American linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of California,Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Michigan in 1961. Fillmore spent ten years at Ohio State University and a year as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University before joining Berkeley's Department of Linguistics in 1971. Fillmore was extremely influential in the areas of syntax and lexical semantics.
Jerry R. Hobbs is an American researcher in the fields of computational linguistics,discourse analysis,and artificial intelligence.
Structural semantics is a linguistic school and paradigm that emerged in Europe from the 1930s,inspired by the structuralist linguistic movement started by Ferdinand de Saussure's 1916 work "Cours De Linguistique Generale".
Wallace Chafe was an American linguist. He was Professor Emeritus and research professor at The University of California,Santa Barbara.
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Linguistics is based on a theoretical as well as a descriptive study of language and is also interlinked with the applied fields of language studies and language learning,which entails the study of specific languages. Before the 20th century,linguistics evolved in conjunction with literary study and did not employ scientific methods. Modern-day linguistics is considered a science because it entails a comprehensive,systematic,objective,and precise analysis of all aspects of language –i.e.,the cognitive,the social,the cultural,the psychological,the environmental,the biological,the literary,the grammatical,the paleographical,and the structural.
Constantin George Sandulescu was a Joycean scholar,but in the first place,he was a linguist with twelve years' experience in the Department of Theoretical Linguistics of the University of Stockholm in the 1970s and 1980s,specializing in Discourse Analysis. In that capacity he read a dozen or so papers at various international congresses.
Lauri Juhani Karttunen was an adjunct professor in linguistics at Stanford and an ACL Fellow. He died in 2022.
Georgia M. Green is an American linguist and academic. She is an emeritus professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research has focused on pragmatics,speaker intention,word order and meaning. She has been an advisory editor for several linguistics journals or publishers and she serves on the usage committee for the American Heritage Dictionary.
Alleen Pace Nilsen is an American literary scholar,linguist,and one of the pioneers of both humor studies and children's literature studies. She is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Arizona State University,where she was previously the director of the English Education Program. Together with her husband Don Nilsen,she co-founded the International Society for Humor Studies.
Geary Hobson is a Cherokee,Quapaw/Chickasaw scholar,editor and writer of fiction and poetry. Hobson,is faculty emeritus at the University of Oklahoma. He received a lifetime achievement award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas in 2003.
Bonnie Lynn Nash-Webber is a computational linguist. She is an honorary professor of intelligent systems in the Institute for Language,Cognition and Computation (ILCC) at the University of Edinburgh.
Gregory Ward is an American linguist,academic and researcher. He is Professor of Linguistics,Gender &Sexuality Studies and,by courtesy,Philosophy at Northwestern University.
Jef Verschueren is a Belgian linguist,academic,and author. He is an emeritus professor of Linguistics at the University of Antwerp.
