Confusing Mode With "Martin's" Text Reference

Doran, Martin & Herrington (2024: 198):

Similarly, the use of text reference (Martin 1992), often coupled with semiotic entities (Hao 2020) and connexion resources, also indicates a distribution of information. In the following (constructed) example, the semiotic entity three main arguments points forward to the fact that a set of arguments are required for the full meaning of the section; the internal connexions First, Second, and Finally signal that each argument connects either forward or backward with the other arguments; and the text reference None of these arguments at the end, looks backwards by making clear that the information that is ‘not convincing’ is to be found earlier in the text. These resources all work together to distribute information throughout the text (while also working to demarcate and foreground different components of this information).

There have been three main arguments against students wearing uniforms. First, they dampens students’ individual expression. Second, uniforms are expensive. And third, they harken back to an old-fashioned time of rigid uniformity. None of these arguments are convincing.

Reviewer Comments:

[1] This confuses the contextual parameter of mode, 'the part played by language' in terms of the culture, with the text reference of Halliday & Hasan (1976: 52), and misleads by plagiaristically crediting Martin (1992) as its intellectual source.

[2] This confuses the contextual parameter of mode, 'the part played by language' in terms of the culture, with Martin's logical discourse semantic system of connexion, which rebrands his confusion of Halliday's grammatical systems of cohesive conjunction (textual) and clause complexing (logical). Evidence here.