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  • Misrepresenting Paratactic Verbal Group Complexes
  • A Problem With Exercise 5: Practising Mood And Polarity Agnation
  • Confusing Nominal Group Structure With Lexical Cohesion
  • Problems With The Textual Analysis Of The Image
  • Misrepresenting The Logical Structure Of Negative Verbal Groups
  • Misrepresenting Temporal Relations In A Text
  • Seriously Misrepresenting The Logical Structure Of A Verbal Group In More Detail
  • Misrepresenting Grammatical Metaphor
  • Ellipsed Topical Theme
  • Misrepresenting Internal Relations

Most Viewed Posts In The Last Month

  • Confusing Nominal Group Structure With Lexical Cohesion
  • Topic Sentence ("HyperTheme") And Introductory Paragraph ("MacroTheme")
  • Problems With 'Tracking' And 'Esphora'
  • Problems With The Textual Analysis Of The Image
  • Ellipsed Topical Theme
  • Misrepresenting Internal Relations
  • Problems With The Interpersonal Analysis Of The Image
  • ‘Hypotactic’ Clause As Theme
  • Dependent vs Embedded Prepositional Phrases
  • The Problem With Hyper-Theme As Linguistic Theory

Most Viewed Posts In The Last Year

  • Misrepresenting "The Theoretical Map Within Which Halliday's Grammar Of English Has Been Proposed"
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  • Confusing Nominal Group Structure With Lexical Cohesion
  • Confusing Ideational Context (Field) With Ideational Content (Language) [1]
  • The Discourse Semantic System Of Participant Identification
  • Misrepresenting Writing Pedagogy As Linguistic Theory
  • Some Of The Theoretical Inconsistencies In Modelling Genre As Realised By Register
  • Confusing The Context Plane With The Content Plane
  • The Difference Between Martin's 'Activity Sequence' And Halliday's 'Sequence'
  • Identity Chains As The Confusion Of Reference And Lexical Cohesion [2]

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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
  • 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]
  • Confusing Nominal Group Structure With Lexical Cohesion

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My General SFL Blogs

  • Sys-Func
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  • The Thought Occurs …
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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
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    The Mirror Test

My Reviews Of SFL Books And Papers

  • The Cardiff Grammar
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  • Working With Discourse: Meaning Beyond The Clause (Martin & Rose, 2007)
    League Table Of Visitors
  • 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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    The Horizon of the Next Word
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  • Making Sense Of Meaning
    Making Sense Of Abstract Art
    2 years ago
  • Informing Thoughts
    Heisenberg On The Probability Wave Viewed Through Systemic Functional Linguistics
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  • Towards A Linguistic Science Of Sciences
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    14 years ago
  • The Life Of Meaning
    26. Selection And Certainty
    14 years ago
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