Wednesday 6 May 2015

Text [3:1] — Problems With Martin's 'Semantics Of Reference' Analysis [5]

Martin (1992: 127, 128):
The nominal groups in [3:1] are listed below. Each is coded for the IDENTIFICATION choices made and the type of reference to the context where these choices are phoric. The analysis will be annotated for purposes of discussion, rather than presented in detail.

NOMINAL GROUP
REFERENCE
(terminal features)
RETRIEVAL
(where phoric)
him
presuming…noninterlocutor  
anaphoric
it
presuming…noninterlocutor  
anaphoric
it
presuming…noninterlocutor  
bridging*


v. Possibly bridged from feeding (although pronouns are not commonly used to refer to implied participants since they contain only a little experiential content which can be followed up when bridging).

Blogger Comments:

[1] As previously explained, this is merely Martin's rebranding of Halliday & Hasan's (1976: 43-57) personal reference, misunderstood, and relocated from lexicogrammar to his discourse semantic stratum.

[2] As previously explained, "bridging" is a confusion of reference and lexical cohesion, rebranded, and relocated to Martin's stratum of discourse semantics.

[3] The experiential content of it in this instance is Goal of the material Process was eating — which specifies it as food.

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