Slide 34: Cline Of Socio-Semiotic Instantiation (Excluding Projection)

Since we have construed socio-semiotic potential as networks of sensing and saying, a socio-semiotic instance is the selective activation of features in these systems — ‘an instantial pattern over the potential’ as Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 45) put it for linguistic systems.  But, when we include the projection of linguistic content …