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

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

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  • Problems With Intermodal Convergence As A Principle Of Instantiation
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My Uses Of SFL Theory

  • Reflections Of A Non-Conscious Meaner
    Where Meaning Ends: Black Holes and the Edges of Instantiation
    1 hour ago
  • Worlds Within Meaning
    Why Song?
    1 hour ago
  • The Relational Ontology Dialogues
    Interwoven Currents
    1 hour ago
  • Reimagining Reality
    Towards Unification: Relational Foundations for Quantum and Relativistic Physics
    1 hour ago
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    2 Symbolic Alignment: How Collectives Stabilise Meaning
    1 hour ago
  • The Construal Experiments: Relational Ontology in Practice
    The Echo That Never Returns
    1 hour ago
  • Seeing the Frame
    Quantum Entanglement and the Misplaced Ghost of Einstein
    1 hour ago
  • Relational Myths
    The Allegorical Cities
    1 hour 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
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    PROTEST AGAINST HIERARCHICAL METAPHORS
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    Cause Expressed By Clause
    4 weeks ago
  • Sysfling
    Kawaan Jurisprudence
    1 month ago
  • Thoughts That Cross My Mind
    Mick O'Donnell On Stratification
    5 months ago

My Reviews Of SFL Books

  • Negotiating Social Relations: Tenor Resources In English
    Purview Overreach: Duplicating Contextual Categories in English
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  • Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics
    The Authors' General Model Of Sonovergent And Semovergent Systems
    5 months ago
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    The Methodological Aberration That Undermines This Entire Monograph
    1 year ago
  • Lexicogrammatical Cartography: English Systems
    The Univariate Structure Of A Passive Verbal Group
    2 years ago
  • Deploying Functional Grammar
    Misrepresenting "The Theoretical Map Within Which Halliday's Grammar Of English Has Been Proposed"
    3 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
    5 months ago
  • Respectful Solidarity In The Systemic Functional Linguistics Community
    Bateman Likening Analyses Of His Rhetorical Strategies To Racist And Misogynist Texts
    6 months ago
  • What Lies Beneath
    [1] The Scientific Status Of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory
    2 years ago

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    1 day ago
  • Subverting The Genre
    Treacherous
    5 days ago

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