Discontinuous Residue and Theme in Higher-Order Semiotic: A Case For Interlocking Systems

The fallacy persists in discourse analysis research to explore lexicogrammatical phcnomena detached from any adjacent plane of the mcaning potential. in an attempt to dispel this and toss out some preconccived notions about what a modem sfg vantage point should involve, this study homcs in on one aspect of sfg within prose fiction in particular, which is very revealing in terms of how separatesystem networks are actually in synergistic simultaneity, and how sfg allows one , phenomenally well, to bring such synergies out, getting to the heart of the fact that language pervasively operates on multiple planes of textuality simultaneously. thus, building upon halliday's 2004 work, the quest is if it is interpersonally significant when the residue is split into two parts; more importantly, if it is alsolaced with some lexicogrammatical quality on the textual plane, in light of the fairly well-entrenched assumption that there is always theme at work when the residue is split.halliday is the only scholar to touch upon the topic of discontinuous residue and its relationship to marked theme in the culmination of his groundbreaking career, i.e, his 2004 work. having driven home the proposal to make into a watchword the ubiquity of interlocking macro-semantic system networks, some pedagogical and research implications and suggestions flowing from this are brought up.