Slide 13: The Socio-Semiotic Domain Of Experience: Sensing And Saying

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And to model the socio-semiotic dimension of experience, we will use the domain that can be understood as the complementarity of internal and external symbolic processing, sensing and saying — what Halliday and Matthiessen (1999: 131) refer to as the ‘conscious-semiotic centre of the ideational universe’.