A '''trinocular perspective''' is an analytical tool in Systemic functional linguistics.<ref name="Peng & Li Metaphorical discourse">{{cite journal |last1=Peng |first1=Wei |last2=Li |first2=Qingping |title=Metaphorical discourse in Beijing Winter Olympic news: a Trinocular Perspective analysis of language, cognition, and social functions |journal=Frontiers in Psychology |date=2024 |volume=15 |issue=17 December 2024 |article-number=1477890 |doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1477890 |pmid=39742050 |pmc=11685200 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Michael Halliday introduced the term using a cartographic hierarchy of stratification whereby three viewpoints were identified:<ref name="Matthiessen (2020) Trinocular views">{{cite journal |last1=Matthiessen |first1=Christian M. I. M. |title=Trinocular views of register: Approaching register trinocularly |journal=Language, Context and Text. The Social Semiotics Forum |date=29 January 2020 |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=3–21 |doi=10.1075/langct.00019.mat}}</ref> * "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:<ref name="Matthiessen (2020) Trinocular views"/> * the cline of instantiation * the spectrum of metafunction * the hierarchy of rank * the hierarchy of axis
== See also == * Trinocular vision
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