The M.A.K. Halliday Prize is an international book prize awarded biennially for the most significant scholarly monograph recently published in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). It is named in memory of M.A.K. Halliday, who was the leading figure in the development of SFL theory. The principal criterion for success will be evidence of excellence and significance in furthering and developing the work of Systemic Functional Linguistics.
ASFLA Inc (The Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association Inc) puts a call out for nominations world-wide for the biennial M.A.K. Halliday Prize. The award of $1000 is presented at the ASFLA conference in the relevant year (2023, 2025…). The award will be assessed together by an international selection committee with each of its seven members coming from a different region.
The 2025 shortlist is:
Huisman, Rosemary. 2023. Narrative Worlds and the Texture of Time. Routledge.
Macnaught, Lucy. 2024. Writing with Students: News Perspectives on Collaborative Writing in EAP Contexts. Bloomsbury Academic.
Matthiessen, Christian. 2023. System in Systemic Functional Linguistics: A System-based Theory of Language. Equinox.
Otieza, Tereza. 2023. What to Remember, What to Teach: Human Rights Violations in Chile’s Recent Past and the Pedagogical Discourse of History. Equinox.
The 2023 shortlist is:
Maagerø, Eva, Ruth Mulvad and Elise Seip Tønnesen. 2022. Women in Social Semiotics and SFL – making a difference. Routledge Studies in Linguistics
Matthiessen, Christian M.I.M., Bo Wang, Yuanyi Ma & Isaac N. Mwinlaaru. 2022. Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics. Singapore: Springer.
McCabe, Anne. 2001. A functional linguistic perspective on developing language. London and New York: Routledge.
Ngo, T., Hood, S., Martin, J. R., Painter, C., Smith, B., & Zappavigna, M. 2022. Modelling paralanguage from the perspective of Systemic Functional Semiotics: Theory and application. London: UK: Bloomsbury.
Congratulations to all who nominated books for the 2023 M.A.K. Halliday Prize.