Fawcett's 'Cardiff Grammar' And Martin's 'Sydney School' Factions Of The SFL Community

Predictive Attributes

The hosts were most welcoming.
The food was delicious.
The papers were stimulating.

A Semiotic Principle

The Presumption Of Immanence

All meaning is presumed to be immanent unless proven otherwise.

The Economic Value Of Meaning

Explaining Something In SFL

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 49):

Giving priority to the view ‘from above’ means that the organising principle adopted is that of system: the grammar is seen as a network of interrelated meaningful choices. In other words, the dominant axis is the paradigmatic one: the fundamental components of the grammar are sets of mutually defining contrastive features. Explaining something consists not in stating how it is structured but in showing how it is related to other things: its pattern of systemic relationships, or agnateness (agnation).

Registering A Complaint

Our Centres Of Excellence

Criteria For Distinguishing Process Types

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 354):

Leading SFL Toward Failure