Rethinking Context: Realisation, Instantiation, And Individuation In Systemic Functional Linguistics

A Meticulous Review Of Doran, Martin and Herrington (2024)

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My Uses Of SFL Theory

  • Reflections Of A Non-Conscious Meaner
    Consciousness as Motion Through an Attractor Space
    19 hours ago
  • Worlds Within Meaning
    The Relational Grammar of the Universe
    19 hours ago
  • The Relational Ontology Dialogues
    Does Naming Free or Fix?
    19 hours ago
  • Reimagining Reality
    What Is Real? Ontology After Quantum Mechanics
    19 hours ago
  • Relational Horizons
    12 Emergence Without Hierarchy: Phase Shifts in Reflexive Systems
    19 hours ago
  • Making Sense Of Meaning
    Making Sense Of Abstract Art
    1 year ago
  • Informing Thoughts
    Heisenberg On The Probability Wave Viewed Through Systemic Functional Linguistics
    1 year ago
  • Rainbow Lorikeet Semiosis
    The Mirror Test
    5 years ago
  • Towards A Linguistic Science Of Sciences
    Slide 2: Title
    13 years ago
  • The Life Of Meaning
    26. Selection And Certainty
    13 years ago

My SFL Teaching Sites

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    Cause Expressed By Clause
    4 days ago
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    Kawaan Jurisprudence
    4 weeks ago
  • Thoughts That Cross My Mind
    Mick O'Donnell On Stratification
    4 months ago

My Reviews Of SFL Books

  • Working With Discourse: Meaning Beyond The Clause (Martin & Rose, 2007)
    League Table Of Visitors
    8 hours ago
  • The Cardiff Grammar
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  • English Text: System And Structure
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  • Negotiating Social Relations: Tenor Resources In English
    Using A Congruent Realisation To Illustrate Grammatical Metaphor
    19 hours ago
  • Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics
    The Authors' General Model Of Sonovergent And Semovergent Systems
    5 months ago
  • Systemic Functional Grammar: A Next Step Into The Theory — Axial Relations
    The Methodological Aberration That Undermines This Entire Monograph
    1 year ago
  • Lexicogrammatical Cartography: English Systems
    The Univariate Structure Of A Passive Verbal Group
    1 year ago
  • Deploying Functional Grammar
    Misrepresenting "The Theoretical Map Within Which Halliday's Grammar Of English Has Been Proposed"
    2 years ago

My Reviews Of SFL Papers

  • Structure Markers: A Subjacency Duplex Analysis
    "Granting These Structural Orphans A Home"
    1 year ago
  • Yaegan Doran On Structure Types
    Overall Assessment
    3 years ago
  • Lexis As Most Local Context (Fontaine 2017)
    Fontaine's Achievement In This Paper
    5 years ago
  • Martin & Zappavigna's Model Of Paralanguage
    The Model Of Intermodal Convergence
    6 years ago
  • Thoughts That Didn't Occur …
    On CONJUNCTION And The Relationship Between Genre, Register And The Linguistic System
    6 years ago

My Ethnographic Studies

  • The Sysfling Experiment
    The Sysfling Experiment
    4 months ago
  • Respectful Solidarity In The Systemic Functional Linguistics Community
    Bateman Likening Analyses Of His Rhetorical Strategies To Racist And Misogynist Texts
    5 months ago
  • What Lies Beneath
    [1] The Scientific Status Of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory
    2 years ago

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