Confusing Mode With The Textual Language That Realises It

Doran, Martin & Herrington (2024: 193):

The model proposed here conceptualises mode as a resource for organising information. As with the models for tenor and field, it does so in a way that aims to make the links between mode and the textual metafunction clear, while at the same time being able to connect with patterns of genre. Under this tentative model, texts can be organised into chunks of information, by demarcating boundaries or sustaining the text’s flow. These options occur within a system called JUNCTURE.

Reviewer Comments:

[1] To be clear, here again the authors aim to make the links between context (mode) and language (textual meaning) clear by misinterpreting context as the language that realises it.

[2] As previously explained, from the perspective of SFL Theory, Martin's stratum of genre is a confusion of text type (register), mode and semantics (text structure). However, in any case, it will be seen that the authors do not make any connections with "patterns of genre".

[3] To be clear, the organisation of texts is the organisation of language, not context.