Thursday 7 May 2015

Relating Phoricity Types To Nominal Group Structure

Martin (1992: 135):
Setting aside the Qualifier, the range of different types of phoricity across elements of nominal group structure is outlined in Fig. 3.13.

Deictic
Post-Deictic
Numerative
Epithet
Classifier
Thing






reminding

reminding







————— relevance ————–——









——————————————————————— redundancy

Blogger Comments:

[1] To be clear, as previously explained, reference ("phoric") items are not elements of the function structure of any grammatical unit, and the nominal group is not the only domain from which they make cohesive (non-structural) relations.

[2] To be clear, reminding phoricity is Martin's rebranding of Halliday & Hasan's (1976) personal and demonstrative (co-)reference, misunderstood and relocated from non-structural lexicogrammar to structural discourse semantics.  The actual domains in which these items appear are given by Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 628, 629) as follows:





[3] To be clear, relevance phoricity is Martin's rebranding of Halliday & Hasan's (1976) comparative reference, misunderstood and relocated from non-structural lexicogrammar to structural discourse semantics.  The actual domains in which these items appear are given by Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 633) as follows:



[4] To be clear, redundancy phoricity is Martin's rebranding of Halliday & Hasan's (1976) ellipsis–&–substitution, misunderstood as a type of reference, and relocated from non-structural lexicogrammar to structural discourse semantics.  The actual domains in which these operations can take place are given by Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 633) as follows:

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