On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, James Robert Martin wrote:
> Francoise,
>
> As an alternative to aligning language with the cognitive and parole with
> the social, we could follow Hjelmslev or Halliday and treat parole as the
> instantiation of langue - parole as the weather and langue as the
> climate to use an analogy Halliday has suggested. Then langue, the
> system, and parole, its instantiation in text (or process if we want a
> dynamic view) can both be read as social (or social/psychological if you
> will). I think this kind of re-reading of Saussure would interface
> linguistics with activity theory much better than a cognitive vs social
> split.
>
> Jim Martin
>
>