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

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

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  • The Misunderstandings Behind 'Participation'
  • Confusing Mode With "Martin's" Text Reference
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  • Problems With The Authors' Examples Of 'Iconicity'
  • Misrepresenting Language As Tenor
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My Uses Of SFL Theory

  • The Becoming of Possibility
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    3 months ago
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    The Great Mythic Cycle: From Shadows to Skies
    3 months ago
  • The Architecture Of Possibility
    Seeing the Whole: A Meta-Reflection on Relational Possibility
    3 months ago
  • The Relational Ontology Dialogues
    The Horizon of the Next Word
    3 months 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
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    The Mirror Test
    6 years ago
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    Slide 2: Title
    13 years ago
  • The Life Of Meaning
    26. Selection And Certainty
    13 years ago
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    9 months ago

My Reviews Of SFL Books

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    League Table Of Visitors
    2 weeks ago
  • The Cardiff Grammar
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  • English Text: System And Structure
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    2 weeks ago
  • Negotiating Social Relations: Tenor Resources In English
    “Expanding Horizons” by Collapsing the Architecture
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    The Authors' General Model Of Sonovergent And Semovergent Systems
    10 months ago
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    The Methodological Aberration That Undermines This Entire Monograph
    1 year ago
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    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"
    2 years ago
  • Yaegan Doran On Structure Types
    Overall Assessment
    4 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
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    3 months ago
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    9 months ago
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    [1] The Scientific Status Of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory
    3 years ago

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    Eternal Resonance II
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    1 day ago
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    4 days ago

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