This consistent relexicalization and overlexicalization, along with focus on the interpersonal and modal aspect of language, point to what Halliday has labeled as “antilanguage” (Halliday 1978:164–82). “Antilanguage” is the language of an “antisociety,” that is “a society that is set up within another society as a conscious alternative to it. It is a mode of resistance, resistance which may take the form either of passive symbiosis or of active hostility and even destruction” (Halliday