Bad Writing Is Something Up With Which We Will Not Put

Halliday's Definition Of Mode

Halliday (2002 [1981]: 225):

Halliday has suggested (1975) that the “textual” properties of a text – the cohesive patterns and those of ‘functional sentence perspective’ – tend to be determined by the “mode”, the function ascribed to the text in the given context of situation, the purpose it is intended to achieve.

The Revelation That Is Social Media

Where The Problems Are

Dealing With Reasoned Argument

Data And Reason

Halliday On The Natural (Not Arbitrary) Relation Between Semantic And Grammar

Halliday (1985 & 1994: xvii-xix):

Halliday (2002 [1984]: 293):

Grammars are ‘natural’, in the sense that wordings are related iconically to meanings.

Helpful Advisor

Enculturating The Post-Doc

Reviewer Feedback After Paper Submission

Collegial Feedback Before Paper Submission

Who Is Right vs What Is Right

The Purpose Of Martin & Doran (eds)

From Stanley E. Porter's review of the 5-volume Systemic Functional Linguistics (2015) edited by Martin & Doran (p27):

The emphasis of the selected chapters is upon the stream of SFL that originated with Halliday’s precursors and then moved to Halliday (with thirteen authored articles included, dating from 1961 to 1998) and then to Martin (with 12 of his! Dating from 1983 to 2012), and hence the traditional or standard SFL and Sydney school SFL. As a result, the flow of the essays apparently frames these volumes as representative of Martin’s succession to the place of leadership within the SFL community or at least within the set of volumes (and near equality with Halliday?).

Word Power

Evidence

Epiphany

How Dunning-Kruger Confidence Proliferates

Uses Of The Term 'Social' In SFL Theory

Hasan uses 'social' to refer to parameters that classify language users in terms of age, gender, class, ethnicity, etc. Such parameters are relevant to both tenor, the interpersonal dimension of context (the culture as semiotic system) — not register — and the semantic variation that correlates with social difference.

Halliday's use of 'social' as an order of complexity refers to the social systems like those of eusocial insects (ants, bees, termites), which are organised on the basis of value, not semiosis.

Halliday's notion of language as a 'social semiotic' distinguishes language from other semiotic systems that are not social, such as the perceptual systems of the brain, as described by Gerald Edelman.

Believing Frauds Without Question

IT

IT Support

Presentations

A Matter Of Circumstance

Fieldwork

Abstract Nouns

Our Values

Sweet Revenge

The Secret To Being A Great Academic

On Parole

Knowers vs Knowledge

Trying To Go Beyond Supervisor Knowledge