[Xmca-l] Re: Halliday Memorial

[Kim Anh Dang]

Dear Michael, 

Thank you very much for writing the meaningful and heartfelt note on our behalf just on time as Michael Halliday's funeral was held this morning.

With my Master's thesis on Systemic Functional Linguistics and PhD on Sociocultural Theory, I really appreciate your note and cannot agree with you more about what you have written. I have been in contact with Prof Frances Christie, a close friend of Michael Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan,  who also wrote "Michael Halliday was a much loved man as well as being a brilliant scholar. We shall all miss him."

Thanks very much again and I look forward to hearing more about your project on Halliday and Vygotsky. 

Best wishes, 

Kim 

Sent from my iPhone

> On 23 Apr 2018, at 10:04 am, mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> This morning there is a memorial service for Michael Halliday. In light of
> our
> recent discussions and current activities, with some help from Andy, I have
> sent the following note. It was done in a hurry and without your
> permission. I hope the occasion warrants my breech of ethics.
> 
> mike
> 
> 
> 
> On behalf of the editorial board and readership of *Mind, Culture, and
> Activity*, I am writing to express our collective
> 
> sadness at the loss of Michael Halliday. News of his passing reached
> us just as we were undertaking a project
> 
> focused on his work in relation to that of Lev Vygotsky and related
> scholars. We all agree with one of our
> 
> community who wrote that Michael's enormous body of work in developing
> the theory of systemic functional
> 
> linguistics is the single most important 20th century contribution to
> our understanding of language systems.
> 
> He will be sorely missed by many friends and colleagues, but his work
> lives on in our own efforts to build upon
> 
> his ideas and his example as a socially committed scholar.
> 
> 
> We are contributing to the owl fund.  It seems fitting. To quote a common
> ancestor,  "The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only as dusk falls."
> 
> 
> 
> Michael Cole
> 
> 
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> 
> (The owl fund, at www.owls.org was designated as a preferable to sending
> flowers.)