RSSWhy Moving Through Designed Space Is Not Analogous To Grammatical Rank Units
Sep 21
mode and modalities No Comments
1.
The path a person takes through an architectural space is not analogous to a text. It is analogous to a reading path through a text, such as a specific reading path through a dictionary, or a specific reading path through a website, eg via hyperlinks.
The text is the meaning of the architectural design as realised by the material configuration devised by the architect.
A reading path is ‘meta’ with regard to the text, in the sense that it is a pattern of a pattern: a pattern ‘written over’ the pattern that is the structure of the text.
2.
Semiotic systems other than language do not have a grammar in the SFL sense. See Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 605-6).
Recent Comments