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No Gods and precious few heroes: SFL and evolutionary linguistics
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In this paper I consider the concept of linguistic dynamism from a materialist and evolutionary perspective. The paper begins with a description of the evolved human traits that account for the variability of response within specific contexts and the degree to which such variability is effective in safeguarding the integrity of the system while allowing for emergence and uptake of adaptive behaviour. From here, the paper draws on the architecture of Systemic Functional Linguistics and the recursive mechanisms of redundancy and articulation to outline how this evolved variability of response can account for the emergence of: (i) higher orders of extension and abstraction in the language system; and (ii) an increase in the meaning potential of the system at each level of abstraction. These two processes are seen as naturally occurring and mutually reinforcing and hence as the beginnings of a materialist account of creativity in language.
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URL: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/222681/ http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/222681/7/222681.pdf
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Managing information, interaction and team building in nurse shift-change handovers: a case study
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Time, the deer, is in the wood: chronotopic identities, trajectories of texts and community self-management
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Managing information, interaction and team building in nurse shift-change handovers: a case study
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Language characterology and textual dynamics: a crosslinguistic exploration in English and Scottish Gaelic
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Conceptualizing language awareness in healthcare communication: the case of nurse shift-change handover meetings
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Language characterology and textual dynamics: a crosslinguistic exploration in English and Scottish Gaelic
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Language characterology and textual dynamics: a crosslinguistic exploration in English and Scottish Gaelic
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Rethinking (context of) culture in systemic functional linguistics
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Negotiating “intervention”: Shifting signifiers in the UK’s response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria
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