Tuesday 10 May 2011

Metaredundancy In Stratal Realisation

Halliday (1992: 24): 
… it is not that (i) meaning is realised by wording and wording is realised by sound, but that (ii) meaning is realised by the realisation of wording in sound. We can of course reverse the direction, and say that sounding realises the realisation of meaning in wording.