Saturday, 13 January 2018

Cosmogonic Myth Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [2]

Genesis (1:1):
1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

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

The clause construes time beginning with the creator of meaning — see previous post — making an initial categorial distinction between phenomena:

in the beginning
God
created
the heaven and the earth
Location: time
Creator
Process: existential
Existent

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