Slide 69: Mapping Levels Of Human Individuality

More specifically, in mapping the socio-semiotic individual onto the biological individual, we have identified Halliday & Matthiessen’s (1999) meaner with individuated socio-semiotic potential — projecting and enacting meaning — and modelled consciousness as its instance.

And, in mapping the social individual onto the biological individual, we have identified Halliday & Matthiessen’s (1999) person with individuated social potential — social doing and being — and modelled persona as its instance.

And just as we like to think, this construes human potential as greater than any of its actual instances.