Deploying Functional Grammar

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  • Misrepresenting Ellipsed Subjects As Unmarked Themes
  • Confusing Subject English With Text Analysis
  • Seriously Misrepresenting Nominal Group Deixis
  • Problems With The Textual Analysis Of The Image
  • The Problem With Hyper-Theme As Linguistic Theory
  • Misrepresenting Paratactic Verbal Group Complexes
  • Is Language 'All There Is'?
  • Seriously Misrepresenting The Embodiment Of The Metafunctions In The Nominal Group
  • Needlessly Rebranding Halliday's 'Pre-Deictic' As The Authors' 'Focus'
  • Omissions In The Major Options In Transitivity

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  • Confusing Ideational Context (Field) With Ideational Content (Language) [2]
  • Misrepresenting "The Theoretical Map Within Which Halliday's Grammar Of English Has Been Proposed"
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  • The Problems With Hyper-Theme And Hyper-New As Linguistic Theory
  • Misunderstanding The Complement vs Adjunct Distinction
  • Confusing Ideational Context (Field) With Ideational Content (Language) [1]
  • The Problem With Hyper-Theme As Linguistic Theory
  • Mood Metaphor
  • Misconstruing Social Context As Language Varieties
  • 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
  • Confusing Ideational Context (Field) With Ideational Content (Language) [1]
  • 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 'Selecting' Subtype Of Focus As A Confusion Of Numeratives And Epithets
  • Misrepresenting Writing Pedagogy As Linguistic Theory

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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
  • 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]
  • The Problem With Exercise 5: Recognising Pre-Elements

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My General SFL Blogs

  • The Thought Occurs …
    From Potential to Readiness: Clarifying Systemic Disposition in SFL Theory
  • Sys-Func
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  • Sysfling
    Assigning A Definition
  • Attitude In Systemic Functional Linguistics
    Lise Fontaine Negatively Assessing Chris' Blog Of Halliday Quotes
  • 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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My Preferred Blogs

  • The Becoming of Possibility
    Competence Without Meaning: 3 Value Without Meaning
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  • A Senser Sensing
    21 hours ago
  • Reflections Of A Non-Conscious Meaner
    Relativity Reframed: Quantum Fields and the Potential of Pattern
    21 hours ago
  • Reimagining Reality
    Probability in Quantum Theory: From Fixed Outcomes to Emergent Possibility
    21 hours ago
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    The Evolution of Symbolic Possibility: 4 Industrial Architectures
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    How did birds evolve?
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    Ape-Human Divide as a Chasm
    1 month ago
  • Relational Physics
    Ontology in Physics: From Evasion to Exposure — A Meta-Conclusion
    2 months ago
  • The Construal Experiments: Relational Ontology in Practice
    Mapping the Landscape of Construal Experiments
    2 months ago
  • Worlds Within Meaning
    Echoes of Relational Ontology in Neuroscience
    3 months ago
  • Relational Myths
    The Great Mythic Cycle: From Shadows to Skies
    3 months ago
  • The Architecture Of Possibility
    Seeing the Whole: A Meta-Reflection on Relational Possibility
    3 months ago
  • The Relational Ontology Dialogues
    The Horizon of the Next Word
    3 months ago
  • Making Sense Of Meaning
    Making Sense Of Abstract Art
    1 year ago
  • Informing Thoughts
    Heisenberg On The Probability Wave Viewed Through Systemic Functional Linguistics
    1 year ago
  • Towards A Linguistic Science Of Sciences
    Slide 2: Title
    13 years ago
  • The Life Of Meaning
    26. Selection And Certainty
    13 years ago
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My Recreational Blogs

  • Technemuse
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