Thursday 13 April 2023

Construing Experience

Matthiessen (1995: 17):
TRANSITIVITY is part of the ideational metafunction, which is a resource for construing our experience of the phenomena in the world around us and the world inside us.


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To be clear, on the immanent view of meaning adopted in SFL Theory, 'the phenomena in the world around us and the world inside us' are themselves meanings construed of experience. They do not transcend semiotic systems.

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