Friday 26 March 2021

Projected Propositions vs Proposals

Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 114):
The interpersonal system for dialogic interaction thus creates a fundamental distinction between 'content' as proposition and 'content' as proposal. This distinction is then reflected in the ideational system of projection: a figure is projected in one or other of these two modes, as a proposition or as a proposal. The two categories combine freely with ideas and locutions:


Blogger Comments:

The table confusingly presents verbally reported locutions as ideas. Instances of genuine reported ideas are:

  • he thought —> that he had done the laundry (proposition)
  • she wanted him  —> to do the laundry (proposal).
'Proposition ideas' are projected by cognitive mental Processes, whereas 'proposal ideas' are projected by desiderative mental Processes.