The Relation Of The Cardiff Grammar To Halliday's Evolving Theory

Fawcett (2010: 73):

One reason why Halliday's "Language as choice in social context" is important, then, is that it is to this apparently aberrant stage of his developing model that the Cardiff Grammar is most closely related. … here my purpose is simply to note the fact of this phase in Halliday's frequently changing model.

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To be clear, Fawcett here positions his theorising in 2010 as most closely related to Halliday's theorising in 1972-6 (published in 1977 and 1978).  That is, while Halliday kept learning and improving his model on the basis of that learning, Fawcett staid put, with the result that few, if any, of the theoretical insights built into Halliday's model in the last half-century are likely to be found in Fawcett's interpretation of Halliday's model.