Trinocular perspective

A trinocular perspective is an analytical tool in Systemic functional linguistics. ^[1] Michael Halliday introduced the term using a cartographic hierarchy of stratification whereby three viewpoints were identified: ^[2]

• "from above" (from a higher stratum)
• "from roundabout" (from its own stratum, its own primary location)
• "from below"(from a lower stratum)

Halliday's colleague, C. M. I. M. Matthiessen has suggested that the approach could be used with other global semiotic dimensions, specifying: ^[2]

• the cline of instantiation
• the spectrum of metafunction
• the hierarchy of rank
• the hierarchy of axis

See also

• Trinocular vision

References

1. Peng, Wei; Li, Qingping (2024). "Metaphorical discourse in Beijing Winter Olympic news: a Trinocular Perspective analysis of language, cognition, and social functions". Frontiers in Psychology. 15 (17 December 2024) 1477890. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1477890 . PMC   11685200 . PMID   39742050.
2. Matthiessen, Christian M. I. M. (29 January 2020). "Trinocular views of register: Approaching register trinocularly". Language, Context and Text. The Social Semiotics Forum. 2 (1): 3–21. doi:10.1075/langct.00019.mat.