Tuesday 5 July 2016

Linguistic Meanings [Semantics] Vs Higher–Level Cultural Meanings [Context]

Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 566n):
‘Text’ or ‘discourse’ here has to be understood not just at the lowest level of abstraction in language as a realisation in speech and writing, but primarily as configurations of linguistic  [i.e. semantic] and higher–level cultural [i.e. contextual] meanings.