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  • 'Be' And 'Have' As Finite Without Predicator
  • Topic Sentence ("HyperTheme") And Introductory Paragraph ("MacroTheme")
  • Confusing Ideational Context (Field) With Ideational Content (Language) [2]
  • Misrepresenting The General Thematic Pattern Of A Text
  • ‘Hypotactic’ Clause As Theme
  • Misrepresenting Rhematic And Ellipsed Subjects As Theme [1]
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  • Is Language 'All There Is'?

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  • Misrepresenting "The Theoretical Map Within Which Halliday's Grammar Of English Has Been Proposed"
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  • The Discourse Semantic System Of Participant Identification
  • The Difference Between Martin's 'Activity Sequence' And Halliday's 'Sequence'
  • Confusing The Context Plane With The Content Plane
  • Some Of The Theoretical Inconsistencies In Modelling Genre As Realised By Register
  • Confusing Nominal Group Structure With Lexical Cohesion
  • Problems With Key Resources For Text Analysis (By Strata And Metafunction)
  • Identity Chains As The Confusion Of Reference And Lexical Cohesion [1]
  • Misrepresenting The Ergative Model As The Transitive Model

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  • Misrepresenting "The Theoretical Map Within Which Halliday's Grammar Of English Has Been Proposed"
  • Confusing The Context Plane With The Content And Expression Planes
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  • Problems With Exercise 4: Analysing Groups With Focus
  • Confusing The Context Plane With The Content Plane
  • A Serious Problem That Invalidates The 'Dimensional' Subtype Of Focus
  • Misrepresenting Tenor And Misunderstanding Power And Solidarity
  • Confusing Ideational Context (Field) With Ideational Content (Language) [1]
  • Identity Chains As The Confusion Of Reference And Lexical Cohesion [2]
  • Some Of The Theoretical Inconsistencies In Modelling Genre As Realised By Register

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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
  • Misrepresenting Tenor And Misunderstanding Power And Solidarity
  • Some Of The Theoretical Inconsistencies In Modelling Genre As Realised By Register
  • Identity Chains As The Confusion Of Reference And Lexical Cohesion [2]
  • The Discourse Semantic System Of Participant Identification
  • Confusing Ideational Context (Field) With Ideational Content (Language) [1]
  • 'Be' And 'Have' As Finite Without Predicator

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My General SFL Blogs

  • Sys-Func
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  • Attitude In Systemic Functional Linguistics
    Lise Fontaine Negatively Assessing Chris' Blog Of Halliday Quotes
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    CAMPAIGN TO CANCEL “FEEDBACK”
  • Sysfling
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  • Thoughts That Cross My Mind
    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

  • Working With Discourse: Meaning Beyond The Clause (Martin & Rose, 2007)
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  • The Cardiff Grammar
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  • Martin's Discourse Semantics, Register & Genre
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  • Negotiating Social Relations: Tenor Resources In English
    Clarifying Scope: Individualising, Collectivising, and the Limits of Tuning
  • 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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