Saturday 13 July 2013

Slide 51: Material Perspective: Saying As Creative Happening


Similarly, if we use the generalised ‘ergative’ model to map verbal processes onto material processes, we see that saying is also a creative happening, in which the Sayer is Actor and the Verbiage is the Scope.

So in viewing saying as a creative happening, the outcome of saying is the coming into existence of the Sayer — a symbol source — and the Verbiage is construed as the domain over which the saying process takes place (or as the saying process itself).

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