Confusing What People Say With What People Do

Martin & Rose (2007: 102-3):

Within each phase we would expect activities to be related, as members of a wider set of activities, or as sub-parts of larger activities. For example, the activities meeting, relationship, marriage belong to a wider set of social interactions, and activities such as marriage can be broken down into smaller components, such as proposal, engagement, wedding, honeymoon and so on. And wedding in turn can be broken down into smaller component activities.

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Here again Martin & Rose confuse activities construed in phases of texts — what people say — with social activities — what (very conventional) people do — such as meeting, relationship, proposal, engagement, wedding, honeymoon.