Sunday, 25 October 2020

Misrepresenting Halliday's SPEECH FUNCTION As The Authors' System

Martin & Rose (2007: 224):
These three oppositions are summarised and exemplified in Table 7.2. They give rise to eight speech acts, which form the heart of the discourse semantic system we’ll refer to as SPEECH FUNCTION.

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Here Martin & Rose go beyond not acknowledging Halliday as the source of "their" ideas to actually presenting Halliday's SPEECH FUNCTION as their idea. Cf Halliday (1985: 69):

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