Dear Colleagues,
The following quote — from *On Language in Relation to the Evolution of
Human Consciousness *— might be helpful to anyone unsure of how Bernstein's
notion of 'code' relates to the architecture of SFL Theory.
Halliday (2003 [1995] 416-7):
"Code" is being used here in Bernstein's sense; it has nothing to do with
the thoroughly misleading notion of language itself being a code. Code
variation [like diatypic or register variation] also increases the meaning
potential, although in a significantly different way. Code variation is
semantic: it is variation in the meanings that are typically associated
with, or "realise", specific situation types in the culture — here, the
stratal relationship is that of language itself as realisation of a
higher-level semiotic. Through this kind of variation the system organises
itself to favour just those meanings that are selected for by the relevant
sub-culture (of class, caste, clan, generation, gender or whatever); hence
it is the code selection that transmits the culture, and cultural
variation, across the generations. This then turns out to be the semiotic
mechanism whereby social hierarchies of all kinds are maintained and
perpetuated.
--
dr chris cléirigh
*Every language is a world. *
*Without translation, *
*we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.*
— George Steiner
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