Thanks Mick
I’m happy to be mistaken but my understanding is that incongruent grammatical
realisations of speech functions are treated as delicate features in message
semantic systems. That is, each feature in the semantic systems has a
particular grammatical realisation. Perhaps Geoff could explain more clearly.
One issue with your synopsis below, is a suggested correlation of form and
meaning with grammar and semantics. This is also suggested by the oft-used
terms ‘wording’ vs ‘meaning’, as though grammar was not meaningful in itself.
What makes grammar meaningful is axis... features realised as structures. The
features are the meanings of the structures. Or rather the features and
structures are two faces of the meanings, that MAKH showed us are made by the
grammar.
Btw, I found "Construing Experience" very beautiful, as it sets out the
intricate model of experience covertly construed by the ideational systems of
English grammar. It was certainly inspirational for me in my description of the
‘Western Desert Code’.
David
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Hi David,
I would not think any Hallidayan would ever posit a 1-to-1 mapping between
Semantics and Grammar. That would invalidate the need for Semantics as a
separate stratum.
Case in point being the mapping from Speech Function to Mood, with, e.g.,
demand:information being realised as interrogative, declarative or imperative.
And visa versa, grammatical configurations often can express alternative
semantic configurations (e.g., "can" can express semantic possibility, ability,
permission, etc.
So, the mapping between Semantics and Grammar always needs to be seen as a
many-to-many mapping.
- language provides multiple forms for realising a particular meaning.
- a particular form can express alternative meanings
(but yes, "Construing Experience" can be read (misread?) to suggest a one to
one mapping between semantic process type selection and Transitivity selection
in the grammar. Something I and other have argued against in the past. And not
something that I think was intended by the authors, Christian and MAKH).
Mick
On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 at 03:53, David Rose
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
To clarify, the grammatico-semantic model assumes a bijective or one-to-one
relation between LG features and semantic features, while the discourse
semantic model allows for multivalued or one-to-many relations between DS
features and LG features. The latter is consistent with MAKH’s model of
congruent/incongruent relations between semantic features and LG features. This
was described in Ch10 of IFG1/2 but was replaced in IFG3/4 by
‘‘transgrammatical semantic domains’, which relocates multivalued realisation
from an interstratal to an intrastratal relation within semantics.
David
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Thanks Chris
This diagram is a good illustration of the grammatico-semantic model, with a
semantic ‘figure’ realised by a grammatical clause and a semantic ‘participant’
by a grammatical nominal group. It must then explain grammatical metaphor by
stratifying the semantic stratum into two ‘domains’, with the diagram showing a
more abstract ‘Value’ realised by a less abstract ‘Token’.
In the discourse semantic model, stratification is between the strata of DS and
LG. So a semantic figure may be realised ‘congruently’ by a clause, or
metaphorically by a nominal group. This paper proposes the term ‘symbolising’
for the latter metaphorical type of relation between DS and LG.
David
Martin, J. R. (2020). Metaphors we feel by: stratal tension. Journal of World
Languages, 6(1-2), 8-26.
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Dear Colleagues,
The following might be useful for those who are unclear on the semantics of
grammatical metaphor.
Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 288-9):
The metaphorical relation is thus similar to inter-stratal realisation in that
it construes a token-value type of relation. Here, however, the relation is
intra-stratal: the identity holds between different meanings, not between
meanings and wordings. The metaphor consists in relating different semantic
domains of experience: the domain of figures is construed in terms of the
domain of participants, and so on… . It is the fact that metaphor multiplies
meanings within the semantic system that opens up the possibility of
metaphorical chains, with one congruent starting-point and another highly
metaphorical end-point (A"' stands for A" stands for A' stands for A; e.g.
'engine failure' stands for 'the failing of an engine' stands for 'an engine
failed'). The semantic system is being expanded along the dimension of the
metaphorical token-value relation; but the expansion is still within the
semantic system itself.
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