Logogenesis Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 43): … [the] ongoing creation of meaning in the unfolding of text … The Unmarked Form Halliday & Matthiessen...
TWO REASONS WHY HALLIDAY’S AND MARTIN’S MODELS OF STRATIFICATION CANNOT BE INTEGRATED 1) They do not mean the same thing by ‘register’. For Halliday,...
The Clause Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 50): … it is the unit where meanings of different kinds, experiential, interpersonal and textual, are integrated...
Class & Function Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 52): The class of an item indicates in a general way its potential range of grammatical functions. … But the...
WHY ‘REALISATION’ APPLIES TO BOTH STRATA AND RANK AND WHERE THE DIFFERENCE LIES The overall architecture of SFL theory can be understood in terms of ...
Word Classes: History Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 51): Word classes were traditionally called ‘parts of speech’, through mistranslation of the Greek term...
Rank Scale & Exhaustiveness Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 60): The general principle of exhaustiveness means that everything in the wording has some function...
Why The Grammar Description Hasn’t Been Maximally Elaborated Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 46): It would take at least 100 volumes of the present size to...
Realisation and instantiation are clearly defined by being characterised in terms of the two types of relational processes. (1) realisation is an [intensive]...
The Linguistic CPU Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 21): Grammar is the central processing unit of language, the powerhouse where meanings are created … The...
Construing Human Experience Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 29): … language provides a theory of human experience … We call it the ideational metafunction...
Strata Related By Realisation Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 26): A language is a series of redundancies by which we link our ecosocial environment to nonrandom...
Syntagmatic Vs Paradigmatic Order Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 22): Structure is the syntagmatic ordering in language: patterns, or regularities, in what goes...
Text Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 23): A text is the product of ongoing selection in a very large network of systems — a system network. Instantiation &...
Two Complementary Perspectives On The Text Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 3,5): … (1) focus on the text as an object in its own right; (2) focus on the text...
‘Text’ Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 3): The term ‘text’ refers to any instance of language, in any medium, that makes sense to someone who knows the...
Social Personæ Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 12): … the social personæ of the interactants … is a model of the interpersonal and ideational distance...
Sequences & Text Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 122-3): Texts and sequences are of the same order of abstraction; both are semantic phenomena. A text is a...
Ideas & Locutions Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 111): Ideas are projections which are sensed, locutions are projections which are said. Why Quote Locutions &...
Axial Relations Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 13): … on the one hand, syntagmatic organisation realises paradigmatic organisation; on the other hand, types...
Awareness Of Language Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 568): Certain aspects of language are closer to conscious awareness than others; these are the more exposed...
Polysystemicity Of The Semantic System Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 506): The system is polysystemic from the point of view of contextual diversification:...
Inherent Indeterminacy Of Language Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 503): We have drawn attention at various points to the overall indeterminacy of language,...
Cognition Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: x): … cognition “is” (that is, can most profitably be modelled as) not thinking but meaning: the “mental” map...
Scientific Theories Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 25): Every scientific theory is itself a stratal-semiotic system, in which the relation among the different...
Bio–Semiotic Systems That Interface With The Content Plane Of Language Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 606-7): These are the systems of human perception,...
Visual Semiotic Systems Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 355): Many visual semiotic systems are ‘paraphrastic’ [with language] in this sense [ie ‘could be...
Location Of Meaning In Western Traditions Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 416): intra-stratal: meaning is seen as immanent — something that is constructed in,...
