Materialization

Materialization. The traffic of meaning between the material and the ideal, where the manner of its manifestation, and the situating of meaning in its context, may vary according to likeness, directedness, or abstraction.

Reference: Kalantzis, Mary and Bill Cope, 2020, Adding Sense: Context and Interest in a Grammar of Multimodal Meaning, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 31-32.