...(Halliday 1993, p. 93). The child learns: ... to construct the system of meanings that represents his own model of social reality. This process takes place...process. It takes the form of the continued exchange of meanings between self and others. The act of meaning is a social act. (Halliday 1975, p. 139) Although...

...a 'meaning potential': The child's task is to construct the system of meanings that represents his own model of social reality. This process takes place...process. But it takes place in contexts of social intetaction, and there is no way it can take place except in these contexts. (Halliday, 1975: 139)...