Thank you, Chris.
And poetry is imagination in the service of science.
(An aphorism a day keeps the mind-fog at bay.)
Rosemary.
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Subject: [sys-func] 5 Types Of Ideational Indeterminacy
Dear Colleagues,
The following might be a useful resource when doing transitivity analyses.
Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 549):
We have tried to make the point that the human condition is such that no
singulary, determinate construction of experience would enable us to survive.
We have to be able to see things in indeterminate ways: now this, now that,
partly one thing, partly the other — the transitivity system is a paradigm
example, and that lies at the core of the experiential component of grammar.
There are perhaps five basic types of indeterminacy in the ideation base:
ambiguities, blends, overlaps, neutralisations, and complementarities —
although it should be recognised from the start that these categories are also
somewhat indeterminate in themselves. What follows is a brief characterisation
of each in turn:
(1) ambiguities ('either a or x'): one form of wording construes two distinct
meanings, each of which is exclusive of the other.
(2) blends ('both b and y'): one form of wording construes two different
meanings, both of which are blended into a single whole.
(3) overlaps ('partly c, partly z'): two categories overlap so that certain
members display some features of each.
(4) neutralisations: in certain contexts the difference between two categories
disappears.
(5) complementarities: certain semantic features or domains are construed in
two contradictory ways.
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dr chris cléirigh
Science is reason in the service of imagination.
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