Jim Martin Was Also Working On The Project

From the Penman website:

Penman is the result of work by many people. Important contributions were made by Drs. Christian Matthiessen and William Mann (the two principal architects of the system), Drs. John Bateman, Robert Kasper, Cécile Paris, Peter Fries, Michael Halliday, Norman Sondheimer, Susanna Cumming, Cecilia Ford, William Swartout, Ms. Lynn Poulton, Messrs. Robert Albano and Mick O'Donnell, and by the current Penman staff. In addition, for many years the Penman project has benefitted from the work of visitors too numerous to list.

Making Meaning: Verbal Writing vs Mental Reading

Subjunctive 'Mood' In SFL Theory And Description

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 143n):

Note that the system of MOOD is a system of the clause, not of the verbal group or of the verb. Many languages also have an interpersonal system of the verb(al group) that has been referred to as ‘mood’: it involves interpersonal contrasts such as indicative/subjunctive, indicative/subjunctive/optative. To distinguish these verbal contrasts from the clausal system of MOOD, we can refer to them as contrasts in mode. The subjunctive mode tends to be restricted to the environment of bound clauses – in particular, reported clauses and conditional clauses having the sense of irrealis. In Modern English, the subjunctive mode of the verb is marginal, although there is some dialectal variation.

The Minor Speech Function Of 'Well-Wishing'

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 196):

Greetings include salutations, e.g. Hullo!, Good morning!, Welcome!, Hi!, and valedictions, such as Goodbye!, See you!; together with their responses, largely the same set of forms. Under this heading we could include well-wishings, like Your very good health!, Cheers!, Good shot!, Congratulations!. Both calls and greetings include some that are structured as clauses or nominal groups.

Cf. The Lord be with you, God forgive you your sins and God bless you.

Negotiating Truth

Decolonising Vs Hegemonic

David Rose wrote to SYSFLING on 13 Aug 2019 at 09:12:

May I add that adopting SFL as a metalanguage is already a decolonising act, against the hegemonic universalist metalanguage of north American formal linguistics?

at the end of a conversation on SYSFLING begun by Jim Martin on 28 Jul 2019, 22:47:

… I would encourage the ISFLA executive to develop guidelines to the effect that in the absence of simultaneous interpreting English be used as a lingua franca for plenary addresses, that programs are clear about which language will be used for parallel presentations, and that where possible an English alternative be made available.

The People's Front Of Systemics

The Chomskyan People's Front (The Enemy Movement)

International Conferences

International Conferences are institutional devices whereby
those with the greatest capacity to pay (savvy senior academics with expense accounts)
have their international (business class) air travel and accommodation paid for (as plenary speakers)
by those with the least capacity to pay (naïve students and junior academics).

Leaders

Why It Is Important To Understand Theory

Just as a language adapts to the inabilities of those who use the language,
so too does a theory adapt to the inabilities of those who use the theory,
thereby gradually losing contact with the phenomenon being modelled.