Monday 15 January 2018

Cosmogonic Myth Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [3]

Genesis (1:3):
3. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, this symbolism from Abrahamic mythology can be interpreted as further construing the genesis of construing experience as meaning through language.

Here the creator of meaning verbally projects a proposal for a phenomenon to exist:

and
God
said

let
there
be
light
1
"
2

Sayer
Process: verbal

Process:

existential
Existent

and this results in the existence of the phenomenon:

and
there
was
light


Process: existential
Existent

That is to say, the phenomenon is construed here as a linguistic construal of experience, made by the creator of meaning.

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