tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748561850292352319.comments2018-04-08T14:25:02.933+10:00The Thought Occurs …Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748561850292352319.post-85749356875756515112018-04-08T14:25:02.933+10:002018-04-08T14:25:02.933+10:00A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting ...A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives — of approving of some and disapproving of others.<br /> — Charles DarwinDr CLÉiRIGhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00949406590039661205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748561850292352319.post-5278271468622863842017-12-20T10:35:46.285+11:002017-12-20T10:35:46.285+11:00The theme of this academic conference is a celebra...The theme of this academic conference is a celebration of the achievements of the SFL community. <br />That is, it is an exercise in self-congratulation.<br />The culture of the SFL community is its greatest intellectual liability.Dr CLÉiRIGhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00949406590039661205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748561850292352319.post-82426384939431977632017-08-06T17:47:44.141+10:002017-08-06T17:47:44.141+10:00(Fork Handles)(Fork Handles)Dr CLÉiRIGhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00949406590039661205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748561850292352319.post-67634673207184451692016-09-27T13:15:51.855+10:002016-09-27T13:15:51.855+10:00Grammar teaches the mechanics of language to the s...Grammar teaches the mechanics of language to the student. This is the step where the student "comes to terms", i.e. defining the objects and information perceived by the five senses. Hence, the Law of Identity: a tree is a tree, and not a cat.<br /><br />Logic (also dialectic) is the "mechanics" of thought and of analysis; the process of identifying fallacious arguments and statements, and so systematically removing contradictions, thereby producing factual knowledge that can be trusted.<br /><br />Rhetoric is the application of language in order to instruct and to persuade the listener and the reader. It is the knowledge (grammar) now understood (logic) being transmitted outwards, as wisdom (rhetoric).Dr CLÉiRIGhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00949406590039661205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748561850292352319.post-47280647329682367882016-02-22T13:16:56.586+11:002016-02-22T13:16:56.586+11:00Note that Martin only apologises for being factual...Note that Martin only apologises for being factually incorrect — not for deliberately setting out to vilify the late Ruqaiya Hasan at a gathering to honour her.Dr CLÉiRIGhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00949406590039661205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1748561850292352319.post-69116831195638109952016-02-22T12:21:49.189+11:002016-02-22T12:21:49.189+11:00Five days after the damage was done, on 22 Februar...Five days after the damage was done, on 22 February 2016 at 11:42, Martin issued the following apology on the local sys-func list (but not on the international sysfling list):<br /><br />HI all<br /><br />At the Hasan Symposium last Wednesday, in my remarks, I reported a conversation I once had with Hasan where as far as I recall she mentioned that she had read Mitchell’s ‘The language of buying and selling in Cyrenaica’ but forgotten about it when she worked on text structure. <br /><br />I then presented exemplary text structures from her work as follows:<br /><br />'medical appointment making':<br />Identification ^ Application ^ Offer ^ Confirmation (1977:233)<br /> <br />'service encounter':<br />Sale request ^ Sale compliance ^ Sale ^ Purchase ^ Purchase closure (1979; 1985a/1989:60)<br /> <br />'nursery tale':<br />Initiating event ^ Sequent Eventn ^ Final Eventn (1984b:80)<br /><br />And then the generalised text structures:<br /><br />'service encounter':<br />[(Greeting).(Sale Initiation)^] [(Sale Enquiry.)n {Sale request ^ Sale Compliance^}n Sale ^] Purchase ^ Purchase closure (^ Finis)<br />- 1979, 1985a/9:60<br /> <br />'nursery tale':<br />[(^) Initiating event] ^ Sequent Eventn ^ Final Eventn [^(Finale).(Moral)]<br />- 1984b:80<br /><br />Hasan 1977 clearly references Mitchell. I apologise for any implication she did not acknowledge his work on text structure in this foundation paper.<br /><br />Jim<br /><br /><br /><br />Hasan, R 1977 Text in the systemic-functional model. W Dressler Current Trends in Textlinguistics. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 228-246.<br /> <br />Hasan, R 1979 On the notion of text. J S Petofi [Ed.] Text vs Sentence: basic questions of textlinguistics. Hamburg: Helmut Buske (Papers in Textlinguistics 20.2). 369-390.<br /> <br />Hasan, R 1984b The nursery tale as a genre. Nottingham Linguistic Circular 13 (Special Issue on Systemic Linguistics). 71-102.<br /><br />Hasan, R 1985a The structure of a text. M A K Halliday & R Hasan. Language, Context and Text. Geelong, Vic.: Deakin University Press. 52-69 [republished by Oxford University Press 1989]<br /><br />Mitchell, T F 1957 The language of buying and selling in Cyrenaica: a situational statement. Hesperis 26-31-71 [reprinted in T F Mitchell 1975 Principles of Neo-Firthian Linguistics. London: Longman. 167-200]Dr CLÉiRIGhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00949406590039661205noreply@blogger.com