Chris:
But isn't Martin also using "expression" in a way that is quite different
from the way it is used in Halliday?
Halliday sometimes uses "expression" as a narrow, technical term to mean
realization as phono- or graphology. So for example on p. 25 of IFG 4 he
says that only infant proto-language is really expression of the content
plane: as soon as there is differentiation of the content plane into
lexicogrammar and semantics we have to use the more general and abstract
term realization if we want to trace how a meaning makes it into a sounding
or into a spelling.
Hjelmslev, on the other hand, uses "express" much more broadly--even beyond
realization. "To express" just means to make a "functive" link between any
sign-expression and its sign-content referent. (Prolegomena, section 13).
So for example red leaves in autumn express the coming of winter (but they
do not in any linguistic sense "realize" that coming)..
Maybe Martin means that expression is "actual" while content is somehow
merely potential: So for example "register" is a potential rather than an
actual use of language, and genre is a potential rather than an actual
register?
Addled,
dk
2022년 6월 27일 (월) 오전 7:59, Dr ChRIS CLÉiRIGh <c.cleirigh@xxxxxxxxx>님이 작성:
Dear Colleagues,
The following quote might be helpful to anyone who is unclear about
Martin's model of context.
Martin (1992: 495):
The tension between these two perspectives will be resolved in this
chapter by including in the interpretation of context two communication
planes, genre (context of culture) and register (context of situation),
with register functioning as the expression form of genre, at the same time
as language functions as the expression form of register.
As Martin explains, his model interprets the *instantiation* relation at
the level of *context*
as a *realisation* relation between *systems* that are *varieties* of
*language*.
--
dr chris cléirigh
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