The construal of context as a semiotic construct accompanies the construal of language as a metafunctionally organized system because of the realizational relationship between the two. And it is this relationship which helps to explain how language is learned:

It is this that enables, and disposes, the child to learn the lexicogrammar: since the system is organized along functional lines, it relates closely to what the child can see language doing as he observes it going on around him.


p. 122 cited in: M.A.K. Halliday, Jonathan Webster (2006) The Language of Early Childhood. p. 289. - Learning How to Mean--Explorations in the Development of Language, 1975

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It is this that enables, and disposes, the child to learn the lexicogrammar: since the system is organized along functional lines, it relates closely ...

It is this that enables, and disposes, the child to learn the lexicogrammar: since the system is organized along functional lines, it relates closely ...

It is this that enables, and disposes, the child to learn the lexicogrammar: since the system is organized along functional lines, it relates closely ...

It is this that enables, and disposes, the child to learn the lexicogrammar: since the system is organized along functional lines, it relates closely ...