In contrast, the Cost of Courage report is organised around the people that struggled against apartheid, who are identified at the beginning of each paragraph, from the policy of apartheid to the comrades in the struggle, to I (Mandela), to we, to every man:
The last paragraph then begins In that way… to culminate Mandela’s explanation of the price his family paid for his commitment to the struggle:
The global scaffolding resource operating here is identification — initially of people, and finally text reference in a circumstance of manner. Expressions of this kind are closely related to internal conjunction in their global text orchestrating function, as we could see by substituting the manner conjunction thus for in that way.
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[1] Clearly, the policy of apartheid does not denote the people who struggled against apartheid.
[2] To be clear, this is identification in the sense of ideational denotation, which, as previously demonstrated, Martin confuses with textual reference and interpersonal deixis in his model of textual discourse semantics.
[3] To be clear, in that way serves as a cohesive conjunction of manner: means, like thus, not as a circumstance of manner.
[4] To be clear, the conjunctive relation here — whether expressed by in that way or thus — is external, not internal. This is because the relation obtains within text in its ideational guise (external), between 'chunks of experience', rather than within text in its interpersonal guise (internal), between 'chunks of interaction' (Halliday & Matthiessen 2014: 611).
That is, Martin & Rose, like Martin (1992), confuse expansion relations that are internal to the text as speech event — whether structurally between clauses or cohesively between messages — with expansion relations that function cohesively ("their global text orchestrating function").
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