Tuesday, 11 February 2020

Theoretical Problems With The System Of Internal Consequence

Martin & Rose (2007: 140):
Options for internal consequence are summed up in Figure 4.8.

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As demonstrated in the preceding six posts, the authors' system of internal consequence is collection of misunderstandings and rebrandings of Halliday's lexicogrammar, presented as Martin's discourse semantics. To summarise:

(a) The 'concluding' feature 'conclude' confuses
  • manner: means (thus)
  • summative clarification (in conclusion)
  • cause (hence, consequently)
(b) The 'concluding' feature 'justify' misconstrues modal assessment (asseverative propositional comment Adjunct enacting the modal assessment 'obvious') as a conjunctive relation.

(c) The 'countering' feature 'dismiss' misconstrues dismissive clarification as internal consequence.

(d) The 'countering' feature 'concede' misconstrues modal assessment (persuasive speech-functional comment Adjunct of concession) as a conjunctive relation.

(e) The 'countering' feature 'unexpected' is simply a rebranding of Halliday's concessive condition.

Moreover, the network incongruously construes
  • 'countering' as a subtype of 'consequence',
  • 'justify' as a subtype of 'concluding', and
  • 'concede' and 'unexpected' as subtypes of 'countering'.

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