Re: Word culture
James Robert Martin (jmartin who-is-at extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU)
Thu, 19 Oct 1995 10:25:36 +1000 (EST)
Re Gordon Wells 3rd point on the different ways in which meaning is made
in music and verbiage - one way of thinking about this in terms of
Hallidayan metafunctions (ideational, interpersonal and textual) is that
music typically elides ideational meaning, thus foregrounding
interpersonal and textual meaning - which is to say that generally it is
not concerned with construing a 'reality' that appears to us as natural.
Jim Martin
Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney