Monday 1 June 2015

Confusing The Logical And Experiential Metafunctions

Martin (1992: 184):
As in Martin (1983) the point of departure for the analysis presented here will be the hypotactic clause complex.  It is in this area that English makes the most delicate experiential distinctions as far as logico-semantic relations between clauses are concerned.

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In SFL theory, the logico-semantic relations between clauses in clause complexes fall within the logical, not experiential, component of the ideational metafunction.