Martin & Rose (2007: 73):
Section 3.2 describes chains of relations between lexical elements in a text, such as repetition, synonymy and contrast. As they build up a picture of people and things as a text unfolds, these are known as taxonomic relations. …
In section 3.2 a method is introduced for analysing taxonomic relations in a text, that allows us to see relations between lexical elements as a text unfolds, as well as the overall pictures of people and things that a text construes.
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As the terms 'lexical', 'repetition' and 'synonymy' disclose, this constitutes Martin's rebranding of lexical cohesion, textual lexicogrammar, misconstrued as experiential discourse semantics. The theoretical inconsistencies are in terms of metafunction and stratification.
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