(I do very much appreciate your response. I will struggle gratefully
with the muddiness.)
Cheers.
- Judy
>>Dear Judy,
> What you describe as "the type of relationship that pertains between
>processes at different levels of a system" would, in SF linguistics, be
>covered by the notion of 'realisation', a symbiotic non-aetiological
>relationship between strata in the linguistic system (e.g. context->text,
>lexico-grammar-> phonology/graphology).
>
>I'm not sure if this is a definition or just a muddying of the waters, but
>within SF linguistics a distinction is often made - as it is in many other
>fields- between typolology and topology, complimentary ways of looking at
>sets of relationships between phenomena. Linguistically, typology is
>inspired by Saussurean models of meaning-making oppositions within the
>linguistic system (eg discriptions of discrete written genres practised in
>school education. The term cline gets used to describe topological
>tendencies (eg how one genre is like another, but different) and
>relationships of agnation between phenomena. Topology is of course useful
>for mapping changes in meaning across texts and onto/phylo/logogenesis of
>meanings. Typology is good for geting a sense of beginning and end points
>and depth soundings in between.
>
>Cheers -Robert
>
>Robert Veel
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Judy Diamondstone
Graduate School of Education
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
10 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu
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