Tuesday 29 April 2014

Two Modes Of Construing Experience: Paradigmatic Vs Syntagmatic

Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 13):
In paradigmatic construal, we construe a phenomenon as being of some particular typesome selection from a set of potential types. … In syntagmatic construal, we construe a phenomenon as having some particular composition — as consisting of parts in some structural configuration.