Sunday 6 December 2020

Expanding Meaning Potential: Elaborating A Semiotic Domain In Delicacy

Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 20):
(ii) Secondly, we may expand the meaning potential by increasing the semantic delicacy; for example
Here the semiotic domain has not been extended but rather has been brought into sharper focus, so that further shades of meaning are differentiated. A finer grid has been applied to the given semantic space.