[Xmca-l] Michael Halliday - In Memoriam

[mike cole]

Last night  the following message was posted at the memorial website for
Michael Halliday.  Thanks to Andy for assistance down under. Now to carry
through on our task of creating a living memory.

mike
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April 22, 2018
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, as requested. It seems fitting. To
quote a common ancestor, "The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only as dusk
falls."

Michael Cole