Dear Colleagues,
The following quote might be helpful for anyone who is not totally clear
about what Hjelmslev means by 'a connotative semiotic'.
Hjelmslev (1969 [1943]: 114):
In the last section, despite a considerable broadening of the perspective,
we have still acted as if the unique object of linguistic theory were
the *denotative
semiotic*, by which we mean a semiotic none of whose planes is a semiotic.
It still remains, through a final broadening of our horizon, to indicate that
there are also *semiotics whose expression plane is a semiotic* —
and semiotics whose content plane is a semiotic. *The former we shall
call connotative semiotics*, the latter *metasemiotics*.
That is, applied to the architecture of SFL Theory, both language and
context together constitute a connotative semiotic,
and since language is a denotative semiotic, varieties of language (e.g.
registers, genres) are varieties of a denotative semiotic.
--
dr chris cléirigh
*Science is reason in the service of imagination.*
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