Thursday 27 August 2015

Delicacy

Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 325): 
… delicacy is different from instantiation. Delicacy is the degree of detail, or specificity, to which the description is taken.  
Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 327): 
Delicacy is the relation between the most general features and the most specific.