"Tracking Resources Have A Role To Play In Setting Up Planes Of Narration"

Martin & Rose (2007: 177):

In quoted speech the pronouns used to track participants shift, from third person to first person for Helena’s first and second loves:

'We won’t see each other again... maybe never ever again.'
'We're moving to a special unit. Now, now my darling. We are real policemen now,’
'What you don't know, can't hurt you.'
'They can give me amnesty a thousand times. Even if God and everyone else forgives me a thousand times - I have to live with this hell. The problem is in my head, my conscience. There is only one way to be free of it. Blow my brains out. Because that's where my hell is.'

So tracking resources have a role to play in setting up planes of narration, including what the narrator tells us directly alongside what she quotes from others.

Blogger Comments:

To be clear, setting up higher orders of experience ("planes of narration") is achieved through projection, not through an orientational shift in personal reference, since the latter merely indicates a change in speaker, at whatever order of experience.

Importantly, the logico-semantic relation of projection does not figure in Martin's logical system of discourse semantics, conjunction, because Martin's conjunction is his misunderstanding of Halliday's cohesive conjunction, rebranded as Martin's discourse semantics; evidence here. Halliday's conjunction does not feature projection, because projection does not function cohesively. However, projection does function at a semantic level, and Martin's discourse semantics fails to account for it.