Language of Science

M. A. K. Halliday was born in Yorkshire in 1925. He was trained in Chinese for war service with the British Army, studied in China, taught Chinese in Britain for a number of years, then moved into linguistics, becoming in 1965 Professor of General Linguistics at University College London Jonathan J. Webster received his PhD in linguistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is currently Acting Head, Department of Chinese. Translation and Linguistics, and Associate Dean (Research and Administration), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at the City University of Hong KongHalliday, M. A. K. is the author of 'Language of Science', published 2004 under ISBN 9780826458711 and ISBN 0826458718.