Towards a paradigmatic description of context: systems, metafunctions, and semantics

Ruqaiya Hasan

doi:10.1186/s40554-014-0009-y

Towards a paradigmatic description of context: systems, metafunctions, and semantics

Ruqaiya Hasan^*

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This article hopes to make a contribution to the growing body of work on the paradigmatic description of context of situation. Having considered the limited achievements of earlier work on context, I offer a fairly detailed account of what is entailed in producing a consistent and precise description of a linguistic category by using the principles and methods of the paradigmatic mode of description devised by the systemic functional linguistics. The system network is a powerful device for an accurate and orderly representation of such a description. The paper will close with remarks on the importance of a scientific analysis of language use (parole) in developing a comprehensive post-Saussurean linguistic theory.

Original language	English
Article number	9
Pages (from-to)	1-54
Number of pages	54
Journal	Informatik-Spektrum
Volume	1
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s40554-014-0009-y
Publication status	Published - 5 Dec 2014

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Keywords

Accuracy
Choice
Consistency
Context-metafunction resonance
Entry point
Individual system
Options
Realisation
Selection expression (SE)
Siultaneous sets
System networks (sys-net)

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