Monday 2 January 2017

Content: Semantics & Lexicogrammar

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 43):
As the upper of the two content strata within language, semantics is the interface between context and lexicogrammar. Semantics transforms experience and interpersonal relationships into linguistic meaning, and lexicogrammar transforms this meaning into words, as we put it above, adopting the speaker’s perspective.


Blogger Comment:

Note that this new addition to IFG by Halliday's reviser, Matthiessen, construes each of semantics and lexicogrammar as both the Assigner and Value of these identifying relations — as both the Agent and Range of the Process.


semantics
transforms 
experience and interpersonal relationships
into
linguistic meaning
Assigner
Process: relational
Identified Token

Identifier Value

and
lexicogrammar 
transforms 
this meaning
into
words

Assigner
Process: relational
Identified Token

Identifier Value