Slide 45: Interpersonal Metaphor: Modality Realised As Senser Sensing

[diagram of modality realised as sensing adapted from Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 584)]

One way to interpret this is to infer that the naturally evolved system of language, that both construes our experience and enacts our social relations, views probability as an adjunct to all propositions enacted by an individual meaner; that probability is an inherent feature of construing experience as ideas.  (This fits broadly with Halliday’s (2008: 38) view that language is a probabilistic system.)

This is also the view that emerged the field of physics in construing the very limits of experience as probabilistic quanta.  We will return to the construals of quantum physics when we consider the implications of the model we have constructed here.