Slide 76: Leavetaking

So, to conclude: in this paper, we have attempted to give a glimpse of the potential of applying the systemic-functional linguistic model to other theoretical fields, especially those of science and philosophy.

And in doing so, we have attempted, in the words of HP Lovecraft (1927): 

‘to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before’.

The meaning of symbol as "something which stands for something else" was first recorded 1590, in Edmund Spenser's Færie Queene.