Misunderstanding Field As A Lexical Meronomy That Realises It

Doran, Martin & Herrington (2024: 183-4):

Beginning with the static perspective, this involves viewing fields as sets of items that can be arranged into taxonomies. One type of taxonomic relation is that of composition – where items are arranged into a part-whole relations. For example, in a classroom lesson in cell biology, the teacher at one stage reads from the textbook:

Here, the teacher explains that animal cell centrosomes are composed of two centrioles, which in turn include nine groups of three microtubules. We can visualise this as a compositional taxonomy as in Figure 2.

Reviewer Comments:

To be clear, the field of this text, 'what is happening' in cultural terms, is a classroom lesson in cell biology. The meronymic taxonomy of the set of lexical items is the language that realises the (second-order) field in this instance.