Friday 2 February 2018

Cosmogonic Myth Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [12]

Genesis (1:14-5):
14. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 
15. And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

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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.

And God said
Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven
to divide the day from the night
and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years
And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth
and it was so
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Firstly, here again the creator of meaning verbally projects a proposal for phenomena to exist:

let
there
be
lights
in the firmament of the heaven
Process:

existential
Existent
Location

That is to say, the phenomena of experience are again construed as linguistic construals of experience, made by the creator of meaning.

Secondly, the creator of meaning verbally projects a proposal for metaphenomena to exist:

let
them
be
for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years
Process:
Identified Token
identifying
Identifier Value

That is to say, these linguistic construals of experience are also construed as symbolic realisations (signs) of more abstract meanings.

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