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

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

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  • Association As Participation, Accord, And Coordination Deconstructed
  • Confusing Mode With The Textual Language That Realises It
  • Three Of The Misunderstandings Behind 'Mass', 'Association' And 'Presence'
  • Problems With 'Principles Of Instantiation'
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  • Misunderstanding SFL's Architecture Of Language
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My Uses Of SFL Theory

  • The Becoming of Possibility
    Resonant Systems: The Dynamics of Relational Coherence: 2 Feedback and Attunement
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  • Reflections Of A Non-Conscious Meaner
    Radical Uncollapse: Love as Ontological Intervention
    11 hours ago
  • Reimagining Reality
    Symmetry as Constraint: Shaping the Field of Possibility
    11 hours ago
  • Relational Horizons
    16 Alignment, Persistence, and the Temporal Depth of Meaning
    11 hours ago
  • The Construal Experiments: Relational Ontology in Practice
    Perception, Resonance, and Temporal Fractals
    11 hours ago
  • Seeing the Frame
    Quantum Superposition as “Being in Two Places at Once”
    11 hours ago
  • The Cosmic Miscalculation
    Stars as Furnaces
    11 hours ago
  • Relational Physics
    Ontological Distortions in Physics, Part 8 The Block Universe — Time as Illusion
    11 hours ago
  • Worlds Within Meaning
    Echoes of Relational Ontology in Neuroscience
    2 weeks ago
  • Relational Myths
    The Great Mythic Cycle: From Shadows to Skies
    3 weeks ago
  • The Architecture Of Possibility
    Seeing the Whole: A Meta-Reflection on Relational Possibility
    4 weeks ago
  • The Relational Ontology Dialogues
    The Horizon of the Next Word
    4 weeks 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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My SFL Teaching Sites

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    Cause Expressed By Clause
    2 months ago
  • Sysfling
    Kawaan Jurisprudence
    3 months ago
  • Thoughts That Cross My Mind
    Mick O'Donnell On Stratification
    6 months ago

My Reviews Of SFL Books

  • English Text: System And Structure
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  • Working With Discourse: Meaning Beyond The Clause (Martin & Rose, 2007)
    League Table Of Visitors
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  • The Cardiff Grammar
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  • Negotiating Social Relations: Tenor Resources In English
    How to Naturalise a Moral Order: A Short Lesson in Analytic Smuggling
    1 day ago
  • Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics
    The Authors' General Model Of Sonovergent And Semovergent Systems
    7 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
    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

  • Respectful Solidarity In The Systemic Functional Linguistics Community
    Lise Fontaine Negatively Assessing Chris' Blog Of Halliday Quotes
    3 weeks ago
  • The Sysfling Experiment
    The Sysfling Experiment
    6 months ago
  • What Lies Beneath
    [1] The Scientific Status Of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory
    2 years ago

My Other Sites

  • A Senser Sensing
    11 hours ago
  • Thinking Outside The Agora
    A Chef With "Issues"
    11 hours ago
  • Humour ~ Only
    An Influencer in the Justice Field by ChatGPT
    11 hours ago
  • Science And Sciencibility
    Surprise meteorite debris uncovered on Moon’s far side
    1 day ago
  • Subverting The Genre
    Self-Absorption
    5 days ago

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