Part I: Halliday's Life
1. Michael Alexander Kirkwood (M.A.K.) Halliday - A Brief Biography, Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong)
Part II: Halliday: The Making of a Mind
2. The 'History of Ideas' and Halliday's Natural Science of Meaning, David G. Butt (Macquarie University, Australia)
3. Halliday in China: Legacies and Advances from LUO, WANG and Beyond, Peng Xuanwei (Beijing Normal University, China)
4. 'Socially Realistic Linguistics': The Firthian Tradition, Braj B. Kachru (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
5. The Influence of Marxism, M.A.K. Halliday (University of Sydney, Australia)
6. Systemic Functional Linguistics: Halliday and the Evolution of a Social Semiotic, Ruqaiya Hasan (Macquarie University, Australia)
Part III: Halliday: Ideas about Language
7. Halliday on Language, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
8. Halliday's Conception of Language as a Probabilistic System, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
9. Language Development in Early Childhood: Learning How to Mean, Jane Torr (Macquarie University, Australia)
10. Halliday the Grammarian: Axial Foundations, Jim R. Martin (University of Sydney, Australia)
11. Intonation, Bradley A. Smith (University of Melbourne, Australia) and William S. Greaves (York University, Canada)
12. Text Linguistics, Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong)
13. Halliday as an International Educator, Geoff Williams (University of British Columbia, Canada)
14. A Linguistics of Style: Halliday on Literature, Annabelle Lukin (Macquarie University, Australia)
Part IV: Directions of Development from Halliday
15. Halliday's Three Functions and Their Interaction in the Interpretation of Painting and Music, Michael O'Toole (Murdoch University, Australia)
16. Multimodal Semiosis and Semiotics, Kay L. O'Halloran, Marissa K.L.E. and Sabine Tan (National University of Singapore)
17. Halliday's Contributions to a Theory of Translation, Erich Steiner (University of Saarland, Germany)
18. Halliday in Relation to Language Comparison and Typology, Kazuhiro Teruya and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
19. Computational Linguistics: The Halliday Connection, John Bateman (University of Bremen, Germany) and Mike O'Donnell (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
20. From the workbench: the 'knight's move' in Halliday's long conversation between verbal art and verbal science, Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong) and David Butt
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