Genesis (1:5):
5. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
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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.
This fifth verse construes the stratification of linguistic content into two levels of symbolic abstraction: meaning and wording.
In the first clause, the creator of meaning verbally assigns a relation of symbolic identity that encodes the meaning the light by reference to the wording day:
This fifth verse construes the stratification of linguistic content into two levels of symbolic abstraction: meaning and wording.
In the first clause, the creator of meaning verbally assigns a relation of symbolic identity that encodes the meaning the light by reference to the wording day:
God
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called
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the light
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Day
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Assigner
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Process: identifying: symbol
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Identified Value
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Identifier Token
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In the second clause, the creator of meaning verbally assigns a relation of symbolic identity that encodes the meaning the darkness by reference to the wording night:
and
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the darkness
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he
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called
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Night
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Identified Value
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Assigner
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Process: identifying: symbol
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Identifier Token
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