(Halliday, 2000:562) According to Halliday (1977) there are two main traditions in Western thinking about meaning: (i) one oriented towards logic and philosophy, with language seen as a system of rules; (ii) one oriented towards rhetoric and ethnography, with language seen as resource. More @Wikipedia
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