Doran, Martin & Herrington (2024: 192):
The ability to both render positions and orient them in relation to people and other positions offers a means of building large networks of meaning that are organised not through ideational configurations (i.e. through field), but through rhetorical relations (what in LCT Maton 2014 calls an axiological constellation). That is, it allows us to map sets of interpersonal values and how they are oriented to different people and communities (Doran 2020a, 2020b, 2024). As noted above, this is done in a way that maintains the connection between tenor and the interpersonal metafunction.
Reviewer Comments:
[1] As previously demonstrated, the authors' 'rendering' is a rebranding of speech function, interpersonal semantics, misunderstood as tenor.
[2] This has instantiation backwards. It is the networks of interpersonal meaning that provide the ability to "render positions" and so on, in texts.
[3] To be clear, the way the authors "maintain the connection between tenor and the interpersonal metafunction" is by rebranding an interpersonal semantic system as tenor.
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