Misconstruing Realisation And Instantiation [Augmented]

Martin (1992: 5):

As noted above, system is related to process through the concept of realisation — realisation formalises the instantiation of the system in process. … These realisation statements relate system to structure; the statements in Fig. 1.1 are summarised and then glossed to clarify their reading in Table 1.1.

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[1] System is related to structure through the concept of realisation — not to the process of instantiation.

[2] Realisation doesn't "formalise" the instantiation of the system in process.  Realisation is an intensive identifying relation (token-value) between levels of symbolic abstraction, as between strata and between axes; instantiation is an intensive attributive relation (token-type) between actual instances of the system and the overall system of potential (Halliday & Matthiessen 1999: 14-5, 145).  See also here.