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  • Rebranding Halliday's 'Complex' Numeratives As The Authors' 'Re-counting' & 'Partitive' Subtypes Of Focus
  • Problems With Scope As A Behavioural Participant
  • Misrepresenting Mental Process Subtypes
  • Mood Metaphor
  • Misrepresenting The Embodiment Of The Experiential Metafunction In The Verbal Group
  • Problems With Exercise 8: Differentiating Behavioural From Verbal Processes
  • A Serious Problem That Invalidates The 'Dimensional' Subtype Of Focus
  • Needlessly Rebranding Halliday's 'Numerative' As The Authors' 'Focus'
  • Ellipsed Topical Theme
  • Misunderstanding The Complement vs Adjunct Distinction

Most Viewed Posts In The Last Month

  • Misrepresenting Writing Pedagogy As Linguistic Theory
  • Topic Sentence ("HyperTheme") And Introductory Paragraph ("MacroTheme")
  • Problems With Scope As A Behavioural Participant
  • Some Of The Theoretical Inconsistencies In Modelling Genre As Realised By Register
  • Problems With Exercise 8: Differentiating Behavioural From Verbal Processes
  • A Serious Problem That Invalidates The 'Dimensional' Subtype Of Focus
  • Misrepresenting "The Theoretical Map Within Which Halliday's Grammar Of English Has Been Proposed"
  • Misrepresenting Grammatical Metaphor
  • Rebranding Halliday's 'Complex' Numeratives As The Authors' 'Re-counting' & 'Partitive' Subtypes Of Focus
  • Seriously Misrepresenting The Nominal Group 'Postdeictic'

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  • Misrepresenting "The Theoretical Map Within Which Halliday's Grammar Of English Has Been Proposed"
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  • Confusing The Context Plane With The Content And Expression Planes
  • Confusing The Context Plane With The Content Plane
  • Problems With Exercise 4: Analysing Groups With Focus
  • A Serious Problem That Invalidates The 'Dimensional' Subtype Of Focus
  • Some Of The Theoretical Inconsistencies In Modelling Genre As Realised By Register
  • The Problem With Exercise 5: Recognising Pre-Elements
  • Problems With The 'Perspective' Subtype Of Focus
  • Serious Problems That Invalidate The 'Classifying' Subtype Of Focus

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  • Misrepresenting "The Theoretical Map Within Which Halliday's Grammar Of English Has Been Proposed"
  • Most Pageviews by Country
  • Confusing The Context Plane With The Content And Expression Planes
  • Confusing The Context Plane With The Content Plane
  • The Problem With Exercise 5: Recognising Pre-Elements
  • Problems With The Interpersonal Analysis Of The Image
  • Textual vs Interpersonal Adjuncts
  • 'Be' And 'Have' As Finite Without Predicator
  • Confusing Ideational Context (Field) With Ideational Content (Language) [2]
  • A Serious Problem That Invalidates The 'Dimensional' Subtype Of Focus

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My General SFL Blogs

  • Sys-Func
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  • The Thought Occurs …
    Committee for Satirical Harm Minimisation
  • Thoughts That Cross My Mind
    Mick O'Donnell On Stratification
  • The Sysfling Experiment
    The Sysfling Experiment
  • Sysfling
    Clause Complex Embedded As Qualifier Of Epithet
  • Attitude In Systemic Functional Linguistics
    Bateman Likening Analyses Of His Rhetorical Strategies To Racist And Misogynist Texts
  • What Lies Beneath
    [1] The Scientific Status Of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory
  • Rainbow Lorikeet Semiosis
    The Mirror Test

My Reviews Of SFL Books And Papers

  • 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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  • Negotiating Social Relations: Tenor Resources In English
    The Basic Problems With The Core Tenor Systems: Positioning And Purview
  • 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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My Preferred Blogs

  • A Senser Sensing
  • Reflections Of A Non-Conscious Meaner
    ChatGPT's Views On AI
  • Worlds Within Meaning
    The Projected Self: Consciousness Rewritten in Relation
  • The Relational Ontology Dialogues
    Is the Future Already Remembering Us?
  • Science And Sciencibility
    Solar-powered slug steals chloroplasts and stores them for emergencies
  • Making Sense Of Meaning
    Making Sense Of Abstract Art
  • Informing Thoughts
    Heisenberg On The Probability Wave Viewed Through Systemic Functional Linguistics
  • Towards A Linguistic Science Of Sciences
    Slide 2: Title
  • The Life Of Meaning
    26. Selection And Certainty

My Recreational Blogs

  • Humour Only
    A Maximum-Security Prison Run By Criminally Insane Daleks [2] by ChatGPT
  • Thinking Outside The Agora
    Ménagerie à trois
  • Subverting The Genre
    Trash

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