Fontaine (2017: 4):
In this section, I will first briefly outline the view of context taken in this paper and in the process draw on the key aspects for discussing the need to develop lexical representation within SFL.
Context is a specialised term in SFL, a theoretical metaphor, like the term 'choice', among others. Hasan (2013:298) argues that “[t]hese theoretical metaphors enable the analyst to enter into an explicit discourse on how language as a semiotic system becomes a powerful resource for the exchange of meanings in social contexts”. By expanding context, as a theoretical metaphor, we can enable some important developments in terms of an SFL approach to lexicology or what we might simply call lexical representation.
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[1] To be clear, as already explained here, the notion of 'lexical representation' — the representation of words in a mental lexicon — is inconsistent with both SFL Theory and 'the known facts of human biology and brain science' (Edelman 1989: 152, 228, 234).
[2] To be clear, in order to expand the SFL notion of 'context' in a theoretically consistent way, it is first necessary to understand the SFL notion of 'context'. As already demonstrated, this is not the case here.
[2] To be clear, in order to expand the SFL notion of 'context' in a theoretically consistent way, it is first necessary to understand the SFL notion of 'context'. As already demonstrated, this is not the case here.