Misrepresenting Language As Tenor

Doran, Martin & Herrington (2024: 191):

Although we cannot explore tenor resources in more detail here, the above texts also illustrate how positions can be sourced to different people, and arranged in relation to each other – such as when Mukherjee (2022) draws on but (a resource for countering) to oppose the initial reactions to Woese’s work (sourced to Many prominent biologists, functioning as the Appraiser) to the current feelings (sourced to us):

Many prominent biologists ridiculed or simply ignored Woese’s work […]. But decades later, we have largely accepted, validated, and vindicated his theory.

Reviewer Comments:

 Again, this is language, not tenor. The tenor is 'who is taking part': author-reader relations.