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  • Rebranding Halliday's 'Complex' Numeratives As The Authors' 'Re-counting' & 'Partitive' Subtypes Of Focus
  • Seriously Misleading Misrepresentations In Exercise 8: Discriminating Verbal And Agentive Identifying Clauses
  • Misrepresenting The Mapping Of Verbal Group Structures
  • The 'Evaluative' Subtype Of Focus Reconsidered
  • Problems With Exercise 3: Analysing (Expanding) Verbal Group Complexes
  • The 'Selecting' Subtype Of Focus As A Confusion Of Numeratives And Epithets
  • Problems With Exercise 8: Differentiating Behavioural From Verbal Processes
  • Misrepresenting The Embodiment Of The Interpersonal Metafunction In The Verbal Group
  • Misrepresenting The Functional Range Of Verbs In Nominal Groups
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  • Misrepresenting "The Theoretical Map Within Which Halliday's Grammar Of English Has Been Proposed"
  • Rebranding Halliday's 'Complex' Numeratives As The Authors' 'Re-counting' & 'Partitive' Subtypes Of Focus
  • Misrepresenting A Behavioural Clause As Material
  • The 'Selecting' Subtype Of Focus As A Confusion Of Numeratives And Epithets
  • Seriously Misrepresenting Nominal Group Deixis
  • Misrepresenting The Embodiment Of The Textual Metafunction In The Verbal Group
  • Misrepresenting The Interpersonal Function Served By Phrasal Verbs
  • Textual vs Interpersonal Adjuncts
  • Problems With Exercise 8: Differentiating Behavioural From Verbal Processes

Most Viewed Posts In The Last Year

  • Misrepresenting "The Theoretical Map Within Which Halliday's Grammar Of English Has Been Proposed"
  • Problems With Exercise 4: Analysing Groups With Focus
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  • Confusing The Context Plane With The Content And Expression Planes
  • 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

Most Viewed Posts Overall

  • 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
  • Problems With Exercise 4: Analysing Groups With Focus
  • The Problem With Exercise 5: Recognising Pre-Elements
  • Some Of The Theoretical Inconsistencies In Modelling Genre As Realised By Register
  • Confusing Ideational Context (Field) With Ideational Content (Language) [1]
  • Identity Chains As The Confusion Of Reference And Lexical Cohesion [2]

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My General SFL Blogs

  • Sys-Func
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  • The Thought Occurs …
    THE CONSTITUTION OF COSMIC ACADEMIA
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    Assigning A Definition
  • Attitude In Systemic Functional Linguistics
    Lise Fontaine Negatively Assessing Chris' Blog Of Halliday Quotes
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    Mick O'Donnell On Stratification
  • The Sysfling Experiment
    The Sysfling Experiment
  • What Lies Beneath
    [1] The Scientific Status Of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory
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My Reviews Of SFL Books And Papers

  • Martin's Discourse Semantics, Register & Genre
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  • Working With Discourse: Meaning Beyond The Clause (Martin & Rose, 2007)
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  • The Cardiff Grammar
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  • Negotiating Social Relations: Tenor Resources In English
    “Expanding Horizons” by Collapsing the Architecture
  • 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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