Misunderstanding The Distinction Between External And Internal Conjunction(s)

Martin & Rose (2007: 115):

Section 4.2 describes conjunctions that are used to relate activities; as they construe a field beyond the text these are known as external conjunctions. Section 4.3 describes conjunctions that are used to organise texts; as this organisation is internal to the text, these are known as internal conjunctions.

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Here Martin & Rose, following Martin (1992), misunderstand the distinction between external and internal conjunction.  To be clear, the source of the distinction is Halliday & Hasan (1976: 239-41), where it is made on the basis of metafunction: experiential vs interpersonal. As Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 611) explain:

Relations between representations of segments of experience are called external relations, and conjunctions marking such relations are called external conjunctions. …Relations linking text segments in their interpersonal guise are called internal relations – internal to the text as a speech event, and conjunctions marking such relations are called internal conjunctions.