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  • Misrepresenting New Information
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  • The Problem With Hyper-Theme As Linguistic Theory
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  • Misrepresenting A Verbal Group Complex As A Verbal Group
  • Confusing Formal Constituency And Function Structure
  • Textual Meaning And Higher Levels Of Contextualisation
  • Seriously Misrepresenting The Nominal Group 'Postdeictic'
  • Misrepresenting Systemic Features As Structural Elements
  • Seriously Misleading Misrepresentations In Exercise 8: Discriminating Verbal And Agentive Identifying Clauses

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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
  • Problems With Exercise 8: Differentiating Behavioural From Verbal Processes
  • The Problem With Hyper-Theme As Linguistic Theory
  • Problems With Exercise 2: Analysing Elliptical Groups
  • Misrepresenting A Behavioural Clause As Material
  • Problems With Exercise 3: Analysing (Expanding) Verbal Group Complexes
  • The 'Selecting' Subtype Of Focus As A Confusion Of Numeratives And Epithets
  • Misrepresenting New Information

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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
  • Problems With Exercise 4: Analysing Groups With Focus
  • Confusing The Context Plane With The Content Plane
  • Misrepresenting Tenor And Misunderstanding Power And Solidarity
  • Confusing Ideational Context (Field) With Ideational Content (Language) [1]
  • The 'Selecting' Subtype Of Focus As A Confusion Of Numeratives And Epithets
  • 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"
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  • 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
  • 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]
  • The Discourse Semantic System Of Participant Identification
  • Identity Chains As The Confusion Of Reference And Lexical Cohesion [2]

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My General SFL Blogs

  • The Thought Occurs …
    Instantiation Is Not a Process
  • Sys-Func
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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
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    [1] The Scientific Status Of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory
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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
    “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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