Wednesday 29 June 2016

Construing Theories Using The Ideation Base

Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 565):
The ideation base, by dint of being polysystemic, accommodates variation along this cline, not only from folk to scientific but also across alternatives: it embodies both congruent and metaphorical construals of experience, and it provides elasticity within the overall construction space.