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Tuesday, 7 October 2025

League Table Of Visitors

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Sunday, 6 June 2021

The People's Front Of Systemics

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   Martin & Rose (2007: 332): We are now all confronted with the urgency of tackling head-on the ‘growthist’ ideology of global capitali...
Friday, 4 June 2021

Perception Management

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  Martin & Rose (2007: 332): Our experience is that the most influential factor shaping the direction of research is what we are develop...
Tuesday, 1 June 2021

Misleading Through Misrepresentations, Misunderstandings And A Logical Fallacy

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Martin & Rose (2007: 331-2): From our own vantage point, there have been some interesting shifts of focus in discourse analysis over th...
Sunday, 30 May 2021

Problems With The System Of Image-Text Relations

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  Martin & Rose (2007: 329, 333n): Image-text relations include expansion or projection , boundary strength and identification .   Thes...
Friday, 28 May 2021

Problems With The System Of Image Textual Organisation

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Martin & Rose (2007: 329, 333n): In sum, images and layouts are organised by their left-right, top-down and centre-margin axes, and by ...
Tuesday, 25 May 2021

Enhancing Image-Text Relations

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  Martin & Rose (2007: 323, 328-9): The left-right axis of the page, the vectors in the inauguration-flag image, and its relations with ...
Sunday, 23 May 2021

Elaborating Image-Text Relations

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Martin & Rose (2007: 323, 328): In the horizontal triptych, image-text relations are both elaborating and enhancing.   The image of the ...
Friday, 21 May 2021

The Vertical Textual Organisation Of Layout: Ideal/Real

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  Martin & Rose (2007: 323, 328): The semantic contrast between the top and bottom texts is between the historical origins of apartheid...
Tuesday, 18 May 2021

The Horizontal Textual Organisation Of Layout: Given/New

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Martin & Rose (2007: 323, 328): In the horizontal triptych on pages 202-3, the photo of the boy is Given and that of the inauguration is...
Sunday, 16 May 2021

Image-Text Relations

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Martin & Rose (2007: 327-8, 333n): Image-text relations include their logical relations, the boundaries between text and image, and iden...
Friday, 14 May 2021

Problems With The Model Of Textual Organisation Of Images

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Martin & Rose (2007: 326-7): To interpret the semantic relations of images to texts in the layout of pages 202-3, we need to introduce s...
Tuesday, 11 May 2021

Problems With The System Of Interpersonal Meanings In Images

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  Martin & Rose (2007: 326, 327): In sum, the two photos illustrate options in attitude , engagement and graduation , set out in Figure...
Sunday, 9 May 2021

Applying Appreciation, Graduation And Engagement To The Inauguration-Flag Photograph

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Martin & Rose (2007: 326, 327): On the other hand the inauguration-flag photo invokes positive appreciation, including aspects of react...
Friday, 7 May 2021

Misapplying A Misrepresentation Of Engagement To A Photograph

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  Martin & Rose (2007: 326): As the boy directly faces the viewer, his defiance /celebration engages us directly, but at the same time ...
Tuesday, 4 May 2021

Applying Judgement And Graduation To A Photograph

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Martin & Rose (2007: 326): In APPRAISAL terms, the photo of the boy invokes a positive judgement of tenacity that must be read in rel...
Sunday, 2 May 2021

Applying Appraisal Theory To Images

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Martin & Rose (2007: 325): In terms of APPRAISAL developed in Chapter 2, images can inscribe feelings, for example with an image of a p...
Friday, 30 April 2021

Problems With The System Network Of Ideational Meanings In Images

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  Martin & Rose (2007: 325): A very general outline of options for ideational meanings in images is given in Figure 9.10. Blogger Commen...
Tuesday, 27 April 2021

The Authors' Inconsistent Use Of Peirce's 'Iconic', 'Indexical' And 'Symbolic'

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Martin & Rose (2007: 325, 333n): Beyond this is the manner in which they are construed .   Photos and realistic drawings can depict enti...
Sunday, 25 April 2021

The Authors' Analysis Of An 'Activity-Focused' Image

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  Martin & Rose (2007: 323, 325): The inauguration photo construes a simple activity, in which the crowd is looking up to the stage and ...