Wednesday 5 October 2016

Post Titles For Chapter 3 — Identification: Reference As Semantic Choice

The titles of the posts that evaluate chapter 3 provide a glimpse of some of its theoretical shortcomings.
  1. Misunderstanding Grammatical Intricacy
  2. On Context "Independency"
  3. Misunderstanding The Use Of Reference In A Child's Text
  4. Confusing Semogenesis With Levels Of Symbolic Abstraction
  5. Confusing Tracking With Identifying And Misrepresenting English Grammar
  6. Confusing Nominal Group Deixis With Cohesive Reference
  7. Confusing Nominal Group Deixis With Reference And A Self-Contradiction
  8. Confusing Identifiability With Newsworthiness, Deixis And Reader Knowledge
  9. Confusing Nominal Groups With Reference Items
  10. Confusing Frege's Reference (Bedeutung) With Halliday's Reference
  11. Rebranding Co-Reference As Reminding Phoricity
  12. Rebranding Comparative Reference As 'Relevance Phoricity'
  13. Misconstruing Ellipsis–&–Substitution As Reference And Rebranding It As "Redundancy Phoricity"
  14. Rebranding Co-Reference, Comparative Reference And Substitution As Reminding, Relevance And Redundancy Phoricity
  15. Misconstruing A Textual Relation (Reference) As A Logical Relation (Dependency)
  16. Confusing Semantic Relations (Reference) With Grammatical Relations (Ellipsis–&–Substitution)
  17. Misidentifying Both The Reference Item And The Referent
  18. Misconstruing Logico-Semantic Cause As Comparative Reference
  19. Misconstruing Phonology As Grammatical Ellipsis–&–Substitution Misunderstood As Semantic Reference
  20. Misconstruing The Absence Of Reference As "Presenting" Reference
  21. Confusing The Referent With The Reference System And Reference With Lexical Cohesion (Hyponymy)
  22. Misidentifying Instances Of Reference In A Text
  23. Self-Contradiction And Circular Reasoning
  24. On Knowledge Of Language As Context
  25. Using Pronouns Generically Without Presuming Generic Participants
  26. On Adjectives In "Generic Groups" And "Relevance Phoricity"
  27. Confusing Nominal Group Deixis With Reference
  28. Confusing Reference With Ellipsis And Deixis
  29. A Manifestly False Claim
  30. Confusing Reference With Misunderstood Deixis
  31. Misrepresenting A Misunderstanding Of Deixis As Reference
  32. Confusing Experiential Content With Textual Reference
  33. Using A Report Of Unseen Data To Support An Unlikely Claim
  34. An Invalid Conclusion From An Unlikely Claim
  35. Confusing Non-Specific Deixis With Demonstrative Reference
  36. Non-Phoric Reference
  37. Deploying A Logical Fallacy To Deceive The Reader
  38. Confusing Deixis, Reference, New And Theme
  39. Misconstruing Non-Specific Deixis As Reference
  40. Confusing Deixis With Reference
  41. Confusing Identifiability With Identity
  42. Mistaking Experiential Identity For Textual Reference
  43. Confusing Textual Reference With 'Transcendent' Reference
  44. Mistaking Proper Nouns For Common Nouns
  45. Misunderstanding The Function Of Personal Reference Items
  46. Mistaking The Experiential Construal Of Participants For Textual Reference
  47. Misconstruing Experiential Naming And Interpersonal Deixis As Textual Reference
  48. Confusing Construing Participants With Reference
  49. Misunderstanding And Rebranding Demonstrative And Comparative Reference
  50. Mistaking Deixis For Reference
  51. Mistaking Numeratives And Epithets For Reference Items
  52. Mistaking Experiential Construal For Textual Reference
  53. The Oxymoron Of "Undirected" Reference
  54. Mistaking The Deictic Function Of Determiners For Their Referential Function
  55. Mistaking An Ordinal Numeral For A Superlative Adjective
  56. A Misunderstanding Of A Nominal Group And A Misleading Inference
  57. Confusing Nominal Group Structure With Non-Structural Reference
  58. Deliberately Omitting Falsifying Evidence
  59. Rebranding A Misunderstanding Of A Grammatical Opposition As Discourse Semantic
  60. Mistaking Experiential For Textual, Grammar For Semantics, And Nominal Groups For Reference Items
  61. Presenting Halliday & Hasan's Ideas As Martin's Ideas [1]
  62. Presenting Halliday & Hasan's Ideas As Martin's Ideas [2]
  63. Presenting Halliday & Hasan's Ideas As Martin's Ideas [3]
  64. Misconstruing Nominal Group Modality As Comparative Reference
  65. Misconstruing Comparative Reference
  66. Some Of The Problems With Martin's Comparison Systems
  67. Misconstruing Homophoric Reference As Not Phoric
  68. Strategically Confusing Delicacy And Realisation
  69. Fig. 3.9 The System Of Identification
  70. Strategically Misrepresenting Halliday & Hasan (1976: 145)
  71. Confusing Ideational Denotation With Textual Reference
  72. Confusing Material Setting And Context Of Situation
  73. Misunderstanding Homophoric Reference And Context Of Culture
  74. Misconstruing Context As Language And Material Setting Instead Of Culture
  75. Reasoning 'From Below' Instead Of 'From Above' And A Self-Contradiction
  76. Misunderstanding Homophoric Reference As Its Opposite
  77. The Inconsistencies Created By Rebranding Structural Cataphora As Esphora
  78. Misunderstanding The Interpersonal Function Of Embedding
  79. Confusing Immanent Textual Reference With Transcendent Ideational Denotation
  80. Confusing Grammatical Reference And Lexical Cohesion
  81. Mistaking Ideational Denotation For Textual Reference
  82. Reference Without Referents
  83. Confusing Ideational Denotation With Textual Reference
  84. Confusing Instantiation With The Syntagmatic Axis
  85. Text [3.1] — A Reference Analysis
  86. Text [3:1] — Problems With Martin's 'Semantics Of Reference' Analysis [1]
  87. Text [3:1] — Problems With Martin's 'Semantics Of Reference' Analysis [2]
  88. Text [3:1] — Problems With Martin's 'Semantics Of Reference' Analysis [3]
  89. Text [3:1] — Problems With Martin's 'Semantics Of Reference' Analysis [4]
  90. Text [3:1] — Problems With Martin's 'Semantics Of Reference' Analysis [5]
  91. Text [3:1] — Problems With Martin's 'Semantics Of Reference' Analysis [6]
  92. Text [3:1] — Problems With Martin's 'Semantics Of Reference' Analysis [7]
  93. Text [3:1] — Problems With Martin's 'Semantics Of Reference' Analysis [8]
  94. Text [3:1] — Problems With Martin's 'Semantics Of Reference' Analysis [9]
  95. Using Writing Pedagogy To Imply Theory Validation
  96. Foreshadowing A Misconstrual Of Stratal Relations
  97. Participant–Nominal Group "Incongruence"
  98. On 'Structural It' Not Realising A Participant
  99. On Nominal Groups In Idioms Not Realising A Participant
  100. On Indefinite Nominal Groups Under The Scope Of Negation Not Realising A Participant
  101. On Nominal Groups Realising Attributes But Not Realising Participants
  102. On Nominal Groups Realising Range (Process) But Not Realising Participants
  103. On Nominal Groups Realising Range (Entity) But Not Realising Participants
  104. On Nominal Groups In Location Circumstances Not Realising Participants
  105. On Nominal Groups In Extent Circumstances Not Realising Participants
  106. On Nominal Groups In Role Circumstances Not Realising Participants
  107. On "The Problem Of Realising More Than One Participant In A Nominal Group"
  108. On Possessive "Pronouns" In Deictic Position
  109. On "Whether Possessive Deictics Are The Deixis Of The Participant They Possess"
  110. Misconstruing Embedded Things (And An Epithet) As Participants
  111. Misconstruing Nominal Group Heads As Participants
  112. Confusing Textual Reference With Interpersonal Deixis
  113. Strategically Misapplying The Term 'Incongruence'
  114. Misunderstanding Grammaticalisation
  115. Misinterpreting Substitution-&-Ellipsis As Reference
  116. Relating Phoricity Types To Nominal Group Structure
  117. Giving Priority To Structure And Form Instead Of System And Function
  118. Martin's Argument For Stratifying Identification And Nominal Group Options
  119. Confusing Identity With Identifiability
  120. Confusing Participant Identity With The Systemic Means Of Referring To Referents
  121. Confusing Semogenesis With Stratification
  122. A Reference Chain Of Non-Participant And Participant
  123. Another Reference Chain Of Non-Participant And Participant
  124. Oversimplifying Nominalisation
  125. Two Bare Assertions Based On A Logical Confusion
  126. "Villified"
  127. Misunderstanding Nominalisation And Reference
  128. Confusing Ideational Construal With Textual Reference
  129. Confusing Metafunctions And Confusing Types Of Cohesion
  130. The Notion Of "Grammatical Metaphor Functioning As A Kind Of Discourse Process"
  131. Metafunctional Inconsistency
  132. Two Theoretical Problems With Reference Chains
  133. Mistaking Nominal Groups For Reference Items
  134. A Fatal Theoretical Flaw And Misrepresenting Du Bois (1980)
  135. Identifying 'The Cat' With 'Her Dinner'
  136. Participant Chains Of Non-Participants
  137. Reminding Phoricity, Relevance Phoricity And Bridging Clarified
  138. Redundancy Phoricity: A System With No Structural Realisation
  139. A Misleading Analysis Of "Instantial Reference"
  140. Misrepresenting Halliday & Hasan On Reference
  141. The Re-Initiation Of Generic Reference Chains
  142. The Analysis Of Text [3:88]: An Attempt To Hide A Theoretical Inconsistency
  143. Eight Problems With Martin's Six Notes To His Analysis Of Text [3:88]
  144. Eight Problems With Martin's Nine Notes To His Analysis Of Text [3:89]
  145. Confusing Circumstances Of Location With Reference Items
  146. Mistaking Manner For Extent And Confusing Circumstances With Comparative Reference Items
  147. Metafunctional Inconsistencies
  148. Some Of The Theoretical Problems With Participant As The Entry Condition To The System Of Identification
  149. Misconstruing 'Multivariate' & Metafunctional Inconsistencies
  150. Martin's Insight That Interruptions Depend On There Being Something To Interrupt
  151. The Commonality Of Reference Structures And Negotiation Structures
  152. The Major Limitation On The Account Of Participant Identification