Well I have had a good day at the library. Unfortunately it closes at 5 at the moment so I am going to try and find somewhere else quiet to study. I have done a lot of reading, including an interesting article about "metaphenomena" (written by Moore 2003 I think. Metaphenomena iidea is taken from Halliday). This is language which represents language rather than phenomena. Confusing? This example might help:
1. Reading is an interesting place to live.
2. Burgess(2008) claims that Reading is an interesting place to live.
Number one is phenomena - language used to represent external reality. 2. is metaphenomena - language used to represent language, in this case the claim(which I am sure would be disputed by many), that Reading is an interesting place to live.
Simple as that, this is exactly what I have been trying to get at, just approached from a slightly different angle. As usual though, the article threw up more questions than it answered. For example, this article classified statements like " Burgess conceives of Reading as interesting place" as metaphenomena. This could not be included in an analysis of Theme though could it? Where do I draw the line? It is all very puzzling? I have realsied though that I am going to have to draw another line an stop Reading soon and just start writing even if I don't have enough information. This is going to be ine of those pieces of writing that you hand in even if they are not complete.
