Martin & Rose (2007: 307):
By working along these parameters of activities and participants, and their realisation across the range of relevant genres, we can explore different domains of life, particularly the differences between everyday, technical and institutional domains, and the kinds of apprenticeship required for participation in them.
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To be clear, here Martin & Rose propose that their discourse semantics (activities and participants), which they misunderstand as their higher stratum, register, is realised by their highest stratum, genre. That is, the authors invert their own model, proposing that register is realised by genre, instead of genre by register.
From the perspective of SFL Theory, what can be said is that processes and participants of the semantic stratum are instantiated in texts that vary in type (genre).
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