Hi Annabelle,
I’d love to read “On the Conception of Context in Text” if you have a
moment to mail me the pdf of it.
— Rob Spence
On Sun 19. Jun 2022 at 03:35, Annabelle Lukin <annabelle.lukin@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Thanks David - but you don't owe me an apology. Sadly the ones who merit
the apology is long gone and gets no right of reply to the claims you've
made.
I'm glad you've reminded people about this crucial paper that Hasan wrote:
'On the Conception of Context in Text'. The reference is below, and I'm
happy to supply it in pdf to anyone who would like to read it.
The debate about Halliday v Martin hinges on what Halliday describe as
'the fundamental abstractions' of our discipline: realisation, and
instantiation - below a couple of Halliday observations of the significance
of these theoretical concepts.
Hasan's paper is about how the models differ with respect to these
principles. They are not subject to falsification - not even with 'massive
empirical descriptions' - they are simply theoretical assumptions, which
are defended on the basis of their descriptive power. Hasan's paper
investigates what follows from the distinct assumptions in Martin's model
when compared with Halliday's.
Halliday set out these assumptions again, clearly, in 2003 (On the
Architecture of Human Language), and defended why this was what he believed
was the most useful and robust model, looking back over 4 decades of his
career. If you can read this and continue to believe Halliday didn't
surrender to Martin's view because he loved his wife, good luck to you.
Instead of being emotional and feeling injured about it, the field is wide
open for some intellectual engagement with her arguments in this paper. If
you think she was wrong, write something scholarly about why.
Cheers
Annabelle
'there is no possibility of understanding these higher-level semiotic
processes except by attending to the lexicogrammatical processes of which
they are constituted. What is now urgent is that we should properly
problematize the fundamental relationship (recognized in post-Saussurean
linguistics as ``realization'') that articulates these various levels of
the semiotic act'
Halliday, M. A. K. 2003. The history of a sentence. In J. J. Webster
(ed.), *On Language and Linguistics. Volume 3 in the Collected Works of
M.A.K. Halliday*, 355-374. London and New York: Continuum. p367
'When physical scientists comment on language, they often seem content to
treat it at the level of the eighth grade. To be fair to those
scientists, this is partly, I think, because they are aware that we - the
linguists - have still not cracked the code of systems of this fourth order
of complexity, semiotic systems. We do not yet fully understand the nature
of our own fundamental abstractions, those of realization and
instantiation, nor the complex multiple relationship that holds between
them.'
Halliday, M. A. K. 2003. The Act of Meaning. In J. J. Webster (ed.), *On
Language and Linguistics: Volume 3 in the Collected Works of M.A.K.
Halliday*, 375-389. London and New York: Continuum. p386
Hasan, R. 1995. The Conception of Context in Text. In P. H. Fries & M.
Gregory (eds.), *Discourse in Society: Systemic Functional Perspectives,
Meaning and Choice in Language: Studies for Michael Halliday*, 183-283.
Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex.
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Beautiful example, Mick!
Geoff
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