Re: [xmca] Antirecapitulationism and the Logical Impossiblity of Social Progress

David,

A clarification question, please.

> I think that's why Halliday, who has an explicitly Vygotskyan conception of
> consciousness as a form of social being from the get-go,

I assume you're referring to Halliday's "Learning How to Mean" (1975)? A
great book, for sure! By an explicitly Vygotskian position do you mean that
Halliday was citing Vygotsky, or that his position was one very similar to
Vygotsky's but without direct influence?

And since I'm in this mode, there's a question I've been wanting to ask
about a post of yours I saved back in 2006. You said (in a discussion of
Firewalls [?]):

" Widdowson complains that Halliday's grammar implies that we can simply
"read off" meaning from a text, without inspecting the context. You can
easily see where he gets that impresssion; Halliday tells us, on the very
first page of the grammar, that this is what his grammar intends to do."

It would be very helpful for other stuff I'm working on to know the citation
for Widdowson, and also for Halliday's grammar (On Grammar, 2005?).

thanks!

Martin

On 4/3/08 6:23 PM, "David Kellogg" <vaughndogblack@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I think that's why Halliday, who has an explicitly Vygotskyan conception of
> consciousness as a form of social being from the get-go

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