Construing experience through meaning : a language-based approach to cognition / M.A.K. Halliday and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This text explores how human beings construe experience: experience as a resource, as a potential for understanding, representing and acting on reality.

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Preface; Part I: Introduction; 1. Theoretical preliminaries; 1.1 Meaning base; 1.2 Functional grammatics and functional semantics; 1.3 Metafunctional diversification; 1.4 The scope of the ideation base; 1.5 Guiding principles; 1.6 Codifying; 1.7 Realization; 1.8 Grammatical evidence; 1.9 Ways of representing semantic organization; 1.10 Organization of the remainder of the book; Part II: The ideation base; 2. Overview of the general ideational potential; 2.1 Phenomena; 2.2 Sequences; 2.3 Figures; 2.4 Elements; 2.5 Participants; 2.6 Simple things; 2.7 Simple qualities.

2.8 Circumstances2.9 Processes; 2.10 Summary; 2.11 Construing experience in the ideation base; 2.12 Construal in the grammar: summary of grammatical evidence; 3. Sequences; 3.1 Natural logic of sequences and prepositional logic; 3.2 Expansion and projection; 3.3 Projection; 3.4 Expansion; 3.5 The relational character of sequences; 3.6 Sequences and text; 3.7 Sequences and grammar; 3.8 Conclusion; 4. Figures; 4.1 Two perspectives on figures; 4.2 Composition: domains of experience; 4.3 Composition: two models of participation; 4.4 Degree of participation; 4.5 Degree of involvement; 5. Elements.

5.1 The primary types of element5.2 Similarities and differences between participants and processes; 5.3 Participants; 5.4 Processes; 5.5 Circumstances; 5.6 Major motifs in the ideation base; 6. Grammatical metaphor; 6.1 Congruent and metaphorical variants; 6.2 The nature of grammatical metaphor; 6.3 How grammatical metaphor evolves: transcategorization; 6.4 Types of grammatical metaphor: elemental; 6.5 Syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions of grammatical metaphor; 6.6 Metaphor, transcategorization & rankshift: semogenic resources; 6.7 Interpretation of grammatical metaphor.

6.8 Representing grammatical metaphor7. Comparison with Chinese; 7.1 Historical background; 7.2 Some general features compared; 7.3 Sequences; 7.4 Figures; 7.5 Elements; 7.6 Processes and things; 7.7 Grammatical metaphor; 7.8 The meaning base: concluding remarks; Part III: The meaning base as a resource in language processing systems; 8. Building an ideation base; 8.1 General; 8.2 The language of the weather; 8.3. The language of recipes; 9. Using the ideation base in text processing; 9.1 Organization of a generation system; 9.2 An example from recipe generation.

9.3 Ideation base supporting text basePart IV: Theoretical and descriptive alternatives; 10. Alternative approaches to meaning; 10.1 Logico-philosophical vs. rhetorical-ethnographic orientations; 10.2 Formal semantics; 10.3 Cognitive semantics; 10.4 Work on meaning in NLP; 10.5 Stratal perspectives on meaning; 11. Distortion and transformation; 11.1 Frames of reference; 11.2 The motif of distortion; 11.3 The status of qualities: an illustration; 12. Figures and processes; 12.1 Criteria for process typology; 12.2 Temporal profile: activities, accomplishments, achievements, and states.

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