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The following outline is provided as an overview and topical guide to linguistics:
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Systemic functional grammar (SFG) is a form of grammatical description originated by Michael Halliday. It is part of a social semiotic approach to language called systemic functional linguistics. In these two terms,systemic refers to the view of language as "a network of systems,or interrelated sets of options for making meaning";functional refers to Halliday's view that language is as it is because of what it has evolved to do. Thus,what he refers to as the multidimensional architecture of language "reflects the multidimensional nature of human experience and interpersonal relations."
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Christian Matthias Ingemar Martin Matthiessen is a Swedish-born linguist and a leading figure in the systemic functional linguistics (SFL) school,having authored or co-authored more than 100 books,refereed journal articles,and papers in refereed conference proceedings,with contributions to three television programs. One of his major works is Lexicogrammatical cartography (1995),a 700-page study of the grammatical systems of English from the perspective of SFL. He has co-authored a number of books with Michael Halliday. Since 2008 he has been a professor in the Department of English at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Before this,he was Chair of the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University in Sydney.
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Rosalind Ivanić is a Yugoslav-born British linguist. She is currently an honorary professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University,United Kingdom. Her research focuses on applied linguistics with a special focus on literacy,intertextuality,multimodal communication,adult literacy,educational linguistics,critical language awareness,punctuation,and second language writing. Along with Theo van Leeuwen and David Barton,she is considered one of the most prominent researchers on literacy.
Veronika Koller is an Austrian-British linguist. She is Professor of Discourse Studies at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University,United Kingdom. Her research focuses on critical discourse analysis.
Alice Marie-Claude Caffarel-Cayron is a French-Australian linguist. She is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Sydney. Caffarel is recognized for the development of a Systemic Functional Grammar of French which has been applied in the teaching of the French language,Discourse analysis and Stylistics at the University of Sydney. Caffarel is recognised as an expert in the field of French Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL).
Michele Zappavigna is an Australian linguist. She is an associate professor at the University of New South Wales,Sydney. Her major contributions are based on the discourse of social media and ambient affiliation. Her work is interdisciplinary and covers studies in systemic functional linguistics (SFL),corpus linguistics,multimodality,social media,online discourse and social semiotics. Zappavigna is the author of six books and numerous journal articles covering these disciplines.
Kay L. O'Halloran is an Australian-born academic in the field of multimodal discourse analysis. She is Chair Professor and Head of Department of Communication and Media in the School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool and Visiting Distinguished Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University (2017–2020). She is the founding director of the Multimodal Analysis Laboratory of the Interactive and Digital Media Institute (IDMI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She is widely known for her development of systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis (SF-MDA) and its application in the realm of mathematical discourse and multimodal text construction. Her current work involves the development and use of digital tools and techniques for multimodal analysis and mixed methods approaches to big data analytics.
Suzanne Eggins is an Australian linguist who is an Honorary Fellow at Australian National University (ANU),associated with the ANU Institute for Communication in Health Care. Eggins is the author of a best selling introduction to systemic functional linguistics and she is known for her extensive work on critical linguistic analysis of spontaneous interactions in informal and institutional healthcare settings.
John Arnold Bateman is a British linguist and semiotician known for his research on natural language generation and multimodality. He has worked at Kyoto University,the USC Information Sciences Institute,the German National Research Center for Information Technology,Saarland University,and the University of Stirling. As of 2023,he is Professor of English Applied Linguistics at the University of Bremen in Germany.
Mary Macken-Horarik is an Australian linguist. She is an adjunct Associate Professor in the Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education (ILSTE) at the Australian Catholic University. This title was awarded "in recognition of her international reputation and scholarly expertise in the field of Senior Secondary English Curriculum." Macken-Horarik is known for her contributions to systemic functional linguistics and its application to literacy,language and English education.
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