Monday 22 July 2013

Slide 42: Self Enacted As Meaner: Interactant


They write Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 600):
If we move outside the ideational metafunction to the interpersonal, the resource through which we interact with other people, we find that here we are acting out our conscious selves — “modelling” consciousness not by construing it but by enacting it.  Interpersonally, projection is a mode of enactment — in moves in dialogue, interactants enact propositions and proposals.
We can represent this as follows…

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