The Thought Occurs

Wednesday, 15 August 2012

The Claim ‘All Strata Make Meaning’

All Strata Make Meaning

all strata = Actor
make = Process: material (abstract): creative
meaning = Goal: outcome

This construes ‘meaning’ and ‘all strata’ as distinct participants in an abstract material process. That is, all strata act and meaning is the outcome.

It does not assign meaning to all strata.


Friday, 3 August 2012

Sample Nominal Group Analysis

a
kind
of
giant
mutated
axolotl
extended Numerative: type: variety
Epithet
Classifier
Thing
Deitic
Thing


See Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 333-4)