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  • Problems With Exercise 4: Analysing Groups With Focus
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My General SFL Blogs

  • Sys-Func
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    FACULTY WORKSHOPS ON RESISTING THE GRAMMAR OF DEADLINES
  • Attitude In Systemic Functional Linguistics
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    Kawaan Jurisprudence
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    Mick O'Donnell On Stratification
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    The Sysfling Experiment
  • What Lies Beneath
    [1] The Scientific Status Of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory
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    The Mirror Test

My Reviews Of SFL Books And Papers

  • Negotiating Social Relations: Tenor Resources In English
    The Spirited Misstep: When Emojis and GIFs Stand in for Context
  • Working With Discourse: Meaning Beyond The Clause (Martin & Rose, 2007)
    League Table Of Visitors
  • The Cardiff Grammar
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  • Martin's Discourse Semantics, Register & Genre
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  • Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics (Ngo et al. 2022)
    The Authors' General Model Of Sonovergent And Semovergent Systems
  • Rethinking Context: Realisation, Instantiation, And Individuation In Systemic Functional Linguistics
    Helping SFL Develop Its Potential To Help Make Our World A Better Place
  • Systemic Functional Grammar: A Next Step Into The Theory — Axial Relations
    The Methodological Aberration That Undermines This Entire Monograph
  • Structure Markers: A Subjacency Duplex Analysis
    "Granting These Structural Orphans A Home"
  • Lexicogrammatical Cartography: English Systems
    The Univariate Structure Of A Passive Verbal Group
  • Yaegan Doran On Structure Types
    Overall Assessment
  • Lexis As Most Local Context (Fontaine 2017)
    Fontaine's Achievement In This Paper
  • Martin's Model Of Paralanguage
    The Model Of Intermodal Convergence
  • Thoughts That Didn't Occur …
    On Martin’s Explicit Modularisation Of The Linguistic System
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    Mapping the Landscape of Construal Experiments
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    Dual Locations
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    The Horizon of the Next Word
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  • Making Sense Of Meaning
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  • Informing Thoughts
    Heisenberg On The Probability Wave Viewed Through Systemic Functional Linguistics
    1 year ago
  • Towards A Linguistic Science Of Sciences
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    13 years ago
  • The Life Of Meaning
    26. Selection And Certainty
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