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Papers from the 39th ISFCinstantiation cline. At one end, “potential” is what an artefact can mean. In this regard, Kressand van Leeuwen’s (2001) “stratification” model is useful for exploring the meaningrepertoire of multimodal semiotic artefacts: discourse, design, production as well asdistribution. After a “movement through the network of meaning potential” (Halliday 1985:10), we arrive at the other end of the cline, the actual artefact. Thus, by viewing semioticartefacts as a dynamic process as well as an instance, we can more fully understand the natureof meaning making by semiotic artefacts in a dynamic ecosocial environment.uChoices in System NetworksConsidering that choices are constantly being made along the developmental trajectory oftourist site entry tickets, we thus need a dynamic framework to model the change ofmeanings. From within the domain of SFL, numerous studies have been done in this regard(e.g. O’Donnell 1987 in the form of system networks; Ventola 1987 in the form offlowcharts). In the tentative model (Figure 1), system networks are chosen to dynamicallytrack and locate the “constituent activities” (Thibault 2004) that are relevant to the meaningmaking of tourist site entry tickets in the ecosocial environment. However, it still needsfurther research to test and to improve the framework in order to enhance its capability ofdynamic modelling.Figure 1: A tentative analytical framework for a tourist site entry ticket (I am grateful toWendy L. Bowcher for proposing the structure of the framework used in this paper and alsoas a key part of my Ph.D. project)uDevices for Realising Cohesive RelationsAlthough Figure 1 is only presented as a linear progression along the developmentaltrajectory, it is expected that relations among constituent activities as well as among allsystems of order can also be shown in this model. Previous studies on cohesive devices (e.g.175