■Functional linguistics (systemic functional linguistics) ▪︎Systemic Functional linguistics grew out of the work of the British linguist, JR Firth, but was developed by Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (1925-2018), also known as Hallidayan linguistics or Systemic linguistics. In the main, SFL studies the relationship between language and its functions in social settings. This approach is applicable to education, education, translation and Computational Linguistics... ▪︎Functional linguistics