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  • Misrepresenting The General Thematic Pattern Of A Text
  • Misrepresenting Verbal Clauses
  • Misrepresenting Identifiability As A Textual Function Of Nominal Group Structure
  • Misrepresenting An Assigned Attributive Clause As An Identifying Clause (With An Ellipsed Token)
  • Misrepresenting A Verbal Quoting Complex As A Behavioural Clause
  • A Problem With Exercise 5: Distinguishing Auxiliary From Lexical Verbs
  • Misrepresenting Material 'Prescribe' As Behavioural
  • The 'Evaluative' Subtype Of Focus Reconsidered
  • A Problem With Exercise 7: Practising Tests To Discriminate Behavioural From Mental Processes
  • Misrepresenting The Constituency Of Phrasal Verbs

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  • Problems With Scope As A Behavioural Participant
  • Misrepresenting The General Thematic Pattern Of A Text
  • A Problem With Exercise 7: Practising Tests To Discriminate Behavioural From Mental Processes
  • Misrepresenting New Information
  • Misrepresenting The Nominal Group 'Numerative'
  • Problems With Exercise 4: Analysing (Projecting) Verbal Group Complexes
  • Misrepresenting Verbal Clauses
  • Seriously Misrepresenting The Logical Structure Of A Verbal Group
  • Misrepresenting Identifiability As A Textual Function Of Nominal Group Structure
  • Misrepresenting An Assigned Attributive Clause As An Identifying Clause (With An Ellipsed Token)

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  • Misrepresenting "The Theoretical Map Within Which Halliday's Grammar Of English Has Been Proposed"
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  • Confusing Ideational Context (Field) With Ideational Content (Language) [1]
  • Identity Chains As The Confusion Of Reference And Lexical Cohesion [2]
  • Misrepresenting Writing Pedagogy As Linguistic Theory
  • Some Of The Theoretical Inconsistencies In Modelling Genre As Realised By Register
  • Misrepresenting Tenor And Misunderstanding Power And Solidarity
  • The Discourse Semantic System Of Participant Identification
  • The 'Selecting' Subtype Of Focus As A Confusion Of Numeratives And Epithets
  • Confusing The Context Plane With The Content Plane

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

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My General SFL Blogs

  • The Thought Occurs …
    Clarification of the New Process for Clarifying Processes
  • Sys-Func
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  • Attitude In Systemic Functional Linguistics
    David Kellogg Negatively Judging The Propriety, Veracity And Capacity Of The Sys-Func Manager
  • Sysfling
    Assigning A Definition
  • Thoughts That Cross My Mind
    Mick O'Donnell On Stratification
  • The Sysfling Experiment
    The Sysfling Experiment
  • 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
    Most Pageviews by Country
  • 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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  • The Becoming of Possibility
    Is information a fundamental building block of reality? — The reification of descriptive abstraction into ontological substrate
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  • A Senser Sensing
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    ChatGPT on our last 16 posts 'Singing Worlds into Being: Meaning-Making, Consciousness, and the Revival of Mythopoeia'
    13 hours ago
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    Evaporation, Horizons, and Relational Reality: How Black Holes Persist and Vanish
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    When Light Breaks Frame: Superluminality as Metaphor: Series Conclusion
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    Ape-Human Divide as a Chasm
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    Ontology in Physics: From Evasion to Exposure — A Meta-Conclusion
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    Mapping the Landscape of Construal Experiments
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    Echoes of Relational Ontology in Neuroscience
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    The Great Mythic Cycle: From Shadows to Skies
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  • The Architecture Of Possibility
    Seeing the Whole: A Meta-Reflection on Relational Possibility
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  • The Relational Ontology Dialogues
    The Horizon of the Next Word
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  • Making Sense Of Meaning
    Making Sense Of Abstract Art
    1 year ago
  • Informing Thoughts
    Heisenberg On The Probability Wave Viewed Through Systemic Functional Linguistics
    2 years ago
  • Towards A Linguistic Science Of Sciences
    Slide 2: Title
    14 years ago
  • The Life Of Meaning
    26. Selection And Certainty
    14 years ago
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My Recreational Blogs

  • Humour Only
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