ABSTRACT
This conclusion also presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. Physics organises its knowledge through language, mathematics and image. Similarly, semiotics is hard. It has a vast and multifaceted object of study that encompasses all the meanings that constitute human culture. The book has explored the meaning-making potential of these resources and the role they play in construing this knowledge. It proposes a series of principles for developing descriptions in Systemic Functional Semiotics. By beginning with axis, the grammatical description in the book was able to derive a metafunctional model for mathematics. It uses genre to unify language and mathematics. The final avenue for future research the book considers here involves the development of a robust semiotic typology. Although this is a very preliminary analysis, nuclear equations and system networks seem to also join mathematics in not displaying an interpersonal component.
