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

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

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  • The Problem With 'Implicitness'
  • The Misunderstanding Behind 'Coordination'
  • Misunderstanding Field As A Semantic Sequence That Realises It
  • Confusing Mode With Hyper-Theme
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  • Misunderstanding Context-Metafunction Resonance
  • Three Of The Misunderstandings Behind 'Mass', 'Association' And 'Presence'
  • Problems With The Mode System Of Pulsing
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  • Clarifying The SFL Model Of Field, Tenor And Mode
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  • The Misunderstanding Behind 'Iconisation'
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  • Misunderstanding SFL's Architecture Of Language
  • The Problem With 'Implicitness'
  • The "Lack Of Consensus" On Context And Its Relation To Language
  • Problems With Intermodal Convergence As A Principle Of Instantiation
  • Confusing Mode With Exophoric Reference
  • Rethinking The Individuation Of Field Tenor And Mode

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My Uses Of SFL Theory

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    Echoes of Relational Ontology in Neuroscience
    4 months ago
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    The Great Mythic Cycle: From Shadows to Skies
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    Seeing the Whole: A Meta-Reflection on Relational Possibility
    4 months ago
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    The Horizon of the Next Word
    5 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
  • Towards A Linguistic Science Of Sciences
    Slide 2: Title
    13 years ago
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    26. Selection And Certainty
    14 years ago
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My SFL Teaching Sites

  • The Thought Occurs …
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    Cause Expressed By Clause
    6 months ago
  • Thoughts That Cross My Mind
    Mick O'Donnell On Stratification
    10 months ago

My Reviews Of SFL Books

  • Working With Discourse: Meaning Beyond The Clause (Martin & Rose, 2007)
    League Table Of Visitors
    20 hours ago
  • The Cardiff Grammar
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  • English Text: System And Structure
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    1 day 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
    11 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
    David Kellogg Negatively Judging The Propriety, Veracity And Capacity Of The Sys-Func Manager
    3 days ago
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    The Sysfling Experiment
    10 months ago
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    [1] The Scientific Status Of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory
    3 years ago

My Other Sites

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    22 hours ago
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    Glass tile can store data for millennia
    2 days ago

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