ABSTRACT
Gunther Kress was unhappy with Chomskian linguistics because of the separation of meaning and form, and then later on in aspects of the theory of syntax with meaning bolted on as a sort of afterthought. When he was in Canterbury, after two years of doing applied linguistics, he began to read stuff of Michael Halliday's, because his job was a research fellow in a language centre. He thought Halliday's kind of linguistics had always been semiotically organized linguistics, but he thinks his book language as Social Semiotic post-dates that particular period. Immediately, he thought that this was a Marxist linguistics, although he never talked about that at all. People can see how Bob Hodge, Theo van Leeuwen and Gunther Kress, stuck to usefulness of Halliday saying that every utterance has to fulfil three metafunctions. John Ogborn, who was professor of Science Education, had a kind of encounter with Halliday's linguistics in the seventies, and found it useful in particular ways.
