Showing posts with label Instantiation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Instantiation. Show all posts

Thursday, 23 July 2020

Decoding People And Books By Reference To Consciousness


people
are
individuations of collective consciousness
Identified Token
Process: relational
Identifier Value

books
are
instances of individuations of collective consciousness
Identified Token
Process: relational
Identifier Value

Thursday, 6 June 2019

Decoding Chomskyan Intuitions About Language

For Chomsky
intuitions about language (data)
are
instances of knowledge of language (theory)
Angle: viewpoint
Identified Token
Process: relational
Identifier Value

Friday, 9 September 2016

Instantiation As Attributive Relation

each text
belongs to
a register
Carrier: possessed
Process: possession
Attribute: possessor

But the above is incongruent, because instantiation is an intensive — not possessive — attributive relation (Halliday & Matthiessen 1999: 145), as in:

this text
is
a register
Carrier
Process: intensive
Attribute

Note that if we say that this text "instantiates" a register, the relation is not attributive, because it can be reversed to a register is instantiated by this text.

If we say this text is an instance of a register, then the instantial relation is construed by the structure of the nominal group:

this text
is
an instance of a register
Identified / Token
Process: relational
Identifier / Value


an instance of
a
register
Numerative: variety
Deictic
Thing