Martin (1992: 490-1):
Grammatical metaphor then is the meta-process behind a text. It co-ordinates the synoptic systems and dynamic processes that give rise to text. It is the technology that let's [sic] the modules harmonise. It is their medium, their catalyst, the groove of their symbiosis, their facilitator, their mediator. It is the re/source of texture.
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[1] This is all disproved by the existence of just one text that doesn't deploy grammatical metaphor.
[2] This continues the misconstrual of the architecture of SFL theory in terms of "interacting modules". See the earlier critique here.
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