Monday 11 July 2016

The Thoughts Of The German Idealists Vs Systemic Functional Linguistics

Russell (1961: 677):
There are certain common characteristics of the German idealists, which can be mentioned before embarking on greater detail. … There is an emphasis upon mind as opposed to matter, which leads in the end to the assertion that only the mind exists.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, the opposition of mind vs matter is a semiotic distinction; it is a distinction within the semiotic system of language.  That is, the distinction is a construal of experience as meaning.  Being, including existing, applies to both domains of construal: the outer (material) domain of doing–&–happening and the inner (conscious) domain of sensing and saying.

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