Sentence examples for between discourse semantics and from inspiring English sources
According to the semantic model, GM does not result from the inter-stratal relationship between discourse semantics and lexicogrammar, but rather from an intra-stratal relationship between elemental semantic categories.
Fig. 1 below illustrates the metaphorical relationship between discourse semantics and lexicogrammar.
Interpersonal metaphor is categorized into metaphors of mood and modality, creating a stratal tension between discourse semantics and lexicogrammar.
Halliday and Martin theorize and exemplify GM based on "stratal tension" between discourse semantics and lexicogrammar (see Devrim [2013]).
The definition of GM from the perspective of the stratal model might be the resetting of the relationship between discourse semantics and lexicogrammar creating a stratal tension.
The stratal model theorizes GM in relation to the stratal tension between discourse semantics and lexicogrammar (Halliday 1985a, Halliday 1988, Halliday 1998; Martin 1992a, Martin 1993b; Halliday & Martin, 1993).
GM might be defined from the perspective of an integrated model as follows: GM is a linguistic structure that results from the stratal tension between ideational (experiential and logical) and interpersonal meanings in discourse semantics, and lexicogrammar.
A stratified language model is assumed here, where patterns of discourse are realised in patterns of grammar (in formal SF terms, discourse semantics and lexicogrammar).
Each metafunction is theorized as systems of choices across three strata of language – phonology/graphology, lexicogrammar and discourse semantics, and across two strata of context – register and genre (Martin 1992; Martin and Rose 2007).
In Example 3, there is not a congruent relationship between the discourse semantics stratum and the lexicogrammar stratum where processes and qualities are realized by nouns rather than verbs and adjectives.
It would be remiss of me however not to position the evolution of discourse semantics, register and genre, and appraisal without acknowledging my commitment to Halliday's conception of SFL as an appliable linguistics (Halliday 2008).
