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Thursday, 30 January 2025

Problems With The 2005 Semester 1 Research Student Course


This semester's PhD student course will focus on multimodality – paralanguage and infographics in particular. See program below.




Paralanguage

Feb 28 model (Jim Martin)
March 7 ontogenesis (Clare Painter)
March 14 phonology (Brad Smith)
March 21 ideational paralanguage (Michele Zappavigna)
March 28 interpersonal paralanguage (Thu Ngo)
April 4 textual paralanguage (Sue Hood)

Infographics

April 11 mass/presence (Jim Martin)
April 18 Good Friday
April 25 [break]
May 2 technicality (Len Unsworth)
May 9 iconisation (Len Unsworth)
May 16 aggregation (Len Unsworth)
May 23 explicitness (Len Unsworth)
May 30 affiliation (Len Unsworth)
May 6 congruence (Len Unsworth)


Blogger Comments:

[1] To be clear, this course is based on the publication: Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics by Ngo, Hood, Martin, Painter, Smith and Zappavigna (2022) which was awarded the inaugural Halliday Prize in 2023. For the very serious problems and inconsistencies that invalidate the model see the review:
[2] For the origins of the model see
[3] To be clear, this corresponds to Chapter 2 of Ngo et al (2022). See the very serious problems with this chapter here.

[4] To be clear, this corresponds to Chapter 4 of Ngo et al (2022). See the very serious problems with this chapter here.

[5] To be clear, this corresponds to Chapter 5 of Ngo et al (2022). See the very serious problems with this chapter here.

[6] To be clear, this corresponds to Chapter 6 of Ngo et al (2022). See the very serious problems with this chapter here.

[7] To be clear, the misunderstandings on which these terms are based when applied to language are outlined in the review here.

[8] To be clear, when applied to language:

  • 'mass' was the meaning of language misunderstood as the contextual parameter of field;
  • 'technicality' was the ideational meaning of language misunderstood as the contextual parameter of field;
  • 'iconisation' was the interpersonal meaning of language misunderstood as the contextual parameter of field; and
  • 'aggregation' was the textual meaning of language misunderstood as the contextual parameter of field.
[9] To be clear, when applied to language:

    • 'presence' was the meaning of language misunderstood as the contextual parameter of mode;
    • 'implicitness' [here 'explicitness'] was the textual meaning (exophoric demonstrative reference) of language misunderstood as the contextual parameter of mode;
    • 'negotiability' [here 'affiliation'] was the interpersonal meaning (speech function) of language misunderstood as the contextual parameter of mode; and
    • 'iconicity' [here 'congruence'] was the ideational meaning (metaphor) of language misunderstood as the contextual parameter of mode.

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