Presenting Unsupported Claims As A Survey: Status & Grammatical Metaphor

Martin (1992: 529):

Table 7.10. Aspects of the realisation of unequal status
Unequal status non-reciprocity [grammar foregrounded]	dominate	defer
interaction patterns	interpersonal congruence	interpersonal metaphor

Blogger Comment:

The claim here is that:

• interpersonal congruence construes the tenor feature 'dominate', whereas
• interpersonal metaphor construes the tenor feature 'defer'.

This claim can be falsified by concrete examples of the interpersonal system of modality:

• the implicit modality of you might be right is claimed to construe the tenor feature 'dominate', whereas
• the explicit modality of it is expected that you attend is claimed to construe the tenor feature 'defer'.